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Unmasking the AI Oracle

What AI's inner workings reveal about its creative potential

Jon Ippolito

Professor of New Media
Director, Digital Curation graduate program
The University of Maine
LearnWithAI.org

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1. Unmasking the AI Oracle

Can generative AI be creative?

Generative AI fabricates by averaging

“I'm trying to plan a 22 mile trail route in a city in my state. I asked ChatGPT for route suggestions a few times and each time it just made stuff up--once it made up a trail that doesn't exist (to connect two other trails that do) and other times to say to go from one trail to another when the trails are miles apart”

—Katie, New Mexico, March 2023

⚠️ The average of two facts isn't necessarily a fact.

3. Can AI be creative beyond hybrids?

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Concave v. convex models

Creative analogy exercise

Can you prompt a chatbot to invent an analog that is "outside the box"?

Try to do better than this Bad example

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Sample demos of GPT-4

Write a Lesson Plan

Generate Multiple Choice Questions

Edit prose according to a standard

Act as a Socratic Tutor

Debug Code (Simple Syntax)

Debug Code (Simple Logic)

Conduct a Mock Interview

Analyze Reports and Visualize Data

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