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by zeknife 1110 days ago
If I had a fully functional self-driving car, I wouldn't be lamenting that it wasn't creative enough
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“Creative” doesn’t necessarily mean “generating new behavior”, but can also mean “generating new hypotheses”. Suppose you see a group of young kids playing in a yard. One tosses a ball up into the air, and the rest run towards it. The first to reach the ball throws it back into the air, and the rest run toward it again.

It requires creativity to recognize the rules of the game as “try to be the first to reach the ball”, to recognize that the thrower may not have time to carefully aim, and that the others might chase the ball regardless of its location. Only if all three of those creative leaps are made, then logical deduction can take over to conclude “if the ball goes in front of me, stop before a kid does the same”.