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AI with a creative streak will be essential in developing highly automated systems that can respond appropriately to human life, says Mark Riedl, an associate professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Interactive Computing. “The fact is, we do lots of little bits of creativity every single day; lots of problem-solving goes on,” Riedl says. “If my son gets a toy stuck under the couch, I have to devise a tool out of a hanger [to retrieve it].”
Read the article here: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/for-ai-to-get-creative-it-must-learn-the-rules-mdash-then-how-to-break-lsquo-em/
