Computational Creativity and the Climate Crisis

Thelatest IPCCreport states thatwemustactnowto avoidclimatecatastrophewithin the lifetimesof our children. Although typically involved inknowledge production,wehaveadutyasacademics toact. We proposetwopathwaysfortheCCcommunity: (1)lead byexamplebycuttingdownourcarbonfootprint;and (2)useourstrengthsincreativethinkingtocontribute towardsclimatesolutions,communicatethedevastating impact,andhelptoeffectaculturalshift

Computational Creativity and the Climate Crisis

Thelatest IPCCreport states thatwemustactnowto avoidclimatecatastrophewithin the lifetimesof our children. Although typically involved inknowledge production,wehaveadutyasacademics toact. We proposetwopathwaysfortheCCcommunity: (1)lead byexamplebycuttingdownourcarbonfootprint;and (2)useourstrengthsincreativethinkingtocontribute towardsclimatesolutions,communicatethedevastating impact,andhelptoeffectaculturalshift

Report on the eighth international conference on computational creativity

The Eighth International Conference on Computational Creativity (ICCC’17)1 was hosted at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA from June 19th - June 23rd, 2017. The ICCC’17 organising committee consisted of Ashok Goel (General Chair), Kazjon Grace (Workshop Co-chair), Matthew Guzdial (Media Chair), Mikhail Jacob (Local Chair), Anna Jordanous (Program Co-chair), Ruli Manurung (Workshop Co-chair) and Alison Pease (Program Co-chair). This report summarises the main topics addressed

Five theories of reasoning: Interconnections and applications to mathematics

The last century has seen many disciplines place a greater priority on understanding how people reason in a particular domain, and several illuminating theories of informal logic and argumentation have been developed. Perhaps owing to their diverse backgrounds, there are several connections and overlapping ideas between the theories, which appear to have been overlooked. We focus on Peirce’s development of abductive reasoning [39], Toulmin’s argumentation layout [52], Lakatos’s theory of reasoning in mathematics [23], Pollock’s notions of counterexample [44], and argumentation schemes constructed by Walton et al. [54], and explore some connections between, as well as within, the theories. For instance, we investigate Peirce’s abduction to deal with surprising situations in mathematics, represent Pollock’s examples in terms of Toulmin’s layout, discuss connections between Toulmin’s layout and Walton’s argumentation schemes, and suggest new argumentation schemes to cover the sort of reasoning that Lakatos describes, in which arguments may be accepted as faulty, but revised, rather than being accepted or rejected. We also consider how such theories may apply to reasoning in mathematics: in particular, we aim to build on ideas such as Dove’s [13], which help to show ways in which the work of Lakatos fits into the informal reasoning community

Opportunities for Computational Creativity in a Therapeutic Context

The question of why and for whom we build creative systems is becoming increasingly relevant. We argue that one potential application area is in therapeutic fields. We investigate the reminiscence practices of 13 bereaved participants; exploring possessions used to support reminiscence; interactions with them, and participants' receptiveness to computational creativity (CC) being used to support them. We use our findings to identify 10 provisional design recommendations for CC in a bereavement context

On the Notion of Creative Personhood

We study here the notion of creative personhood and what it is like to be in the presence of a creative individual. We suggest ideas for what creative personhood means in human society and propose how this may help to develop generative AI systems. Situating the study in the philosophy of computational creativity, we address notions of agency, self-expression, individuality and responsible behaviours associated with human creativity. We apply this analysis to an initial consideration of the ChatGPT generative text system, in terms of its potential to exhibit elements of creative personhood