Not an intelligence explosion but a creativity explosion: Boden's three types of creative thought
burny_tech · x · 2026-10-23
The author reframes the "intelligence explosion" as a "creativity explosion": AI can branch endlessly through phylogenetic trees of ideas at every level of creative transformation, per Margaret Boden's framework — combinatorial (familiar ideas joined in unfamiliar ways), exploratory (new possibilities within existing rules), and transformational (changing the rules so previously excluded possibilities become available).
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