Theorem: General Intelligence Entails Creativity, Assuming $$\ldots $$
Selmer Bringsjord · Atlantis thinking machines · 2014
There appears to be considerable evidence against the claim that general intelligence entails creativity. For example, with this claim unpacked as the proposition that any general-intelligent agent must be creative, the field of AI declares the claim to be false. To see this, we need but note that the dominant and encyclopedic AI textbook [16] defines an intelligent agent as one that computes a mapping from its percepts to its actions. The range of potential mappings explored in this volume is non-trivial, ranging from simple arithmetic functions to functions that leverage declarative knowledge, and beyond. But never is creativity discussed in connection with any of these functions; indeed creativity is nowhere discussed in the book, period; nor for that matter is any synonym (e.g., ‘innovative’) discussed. In short, as far as this highly influential and comprehensive volume is concerned, general-intelligent agents needn’t be creative. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.