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by eli_gottlieb
2400 days ago
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> Causal reasoning is one thing that is lacking. But what about creativity? What about drive and desire? What about belief and the will to fail on the road to success? What about collective intelligence and the need to peer up in efforts? What about emotional intelligence? Hi, I work at one of the intersections of machine learning with certain schools of thought in neuroscience. The following is based entirely on my own understanding, but is at least based on an understanding. Your list here really only has three problems in it: causal reasoning, theory of mind, and "emotional intelligence". Emotional intelligence works in the service of "drive and desire", considered broadly. Creativity likewise works for the emotions. To be creative, you need aesthetic criteria. Most of that, we're still really working on putting into mathematical and computational terms. |
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As a take on your interpretation of creativity: I would argue that the act of forming new and valuable propositions is not related to emotion or aesthetics per se.
Aesthetic theory is observing a very narrow subset of creative processes. And even there, our transition from modernism into the uncertainty of the post-modernist world defies any sound definition of the "aesthetic criteria". Yet we perceive aesthetic human-creativity all the time.
In similar vain is the application of generative machine learning that spurs debate about computational aesthetics today. Nothing proofs better the incapability of modern ML forming real creativity than the imitating nature of adversarial networks spitting out (quite beautiful) permutations of simplified data structures underlying the body of Bach's compositions.
Now we could start on the assumed role of complex neurotransmitters in the creative process of the brain and the trivial way reinforcement learning rewards artificial agents, but that would push the scope of this comment.