"The Crowdless Future? Generative AI and Creative Problem-Solving" by Léonard Boussioux, Jacqueline N. Lane, Miaomiao Zhang, Vladimir Jacimovic, Karim R. Lakhani

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This academic paper from Organization Science explores the efficacy of generative AI in creative problem-solving, specifically comparing human-generated ideas to those produced through human-AI collaboration. The authors conducted a crowdsourcing challenge for sustainable business ideas, assessing novelty, strategic viability, environmental value, financial value, and overall quality of solutions. Key findings indicate that while human crowds excel in generating highly novel ideas, human-AI partnerships, especially with iterative, human-guided "differentiated search" prompting, yield solutions with superior overall quality and value. The research highlights the potential of AI to cost-effectively augment early innovation stages and suggests a future where human and AI capabilities are integrated for more impactful problem-solving.

"Human-AI Co-Creativity: Exploring Synergies Across Levels of Creative Collaboration" by Jennifer Haase and Sebastian Pokutta

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This source explores Human-AI Co-Creativity, arguing that generative AI can significantly enhance human creative abilities by acting as a collaborative partner rather than just a tool. It outlines a progression through four levels of digital tool integration in creative tasks, from simple digital pens to sophisticated AI co-creators that contribute original ideas. Using examples from mathematics, the authors illustrate how AI can move beyond assisting with complex computations to actively participating in the discovery of novel solutions, suggesting a future where AI complements and amplifies human creativity for unprecedented achievements. The text also touches on the philosophical debate surrounding the "true" creativity of AI and the importance of designing AI systems that support human skills.

"Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity" by Teresa M. Amabile and Julianna Pillemer

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This document, "Perspectives on the Social Psychology of Creativity," traces the historical development and key ideas within this field. It highlights how the focus shifted from viewing creativity solely as an innate individual trait of "geniuses" to recognising the significant impact of social and environmental factors. The article emphasizes the Intrinsic Motivation Principle, proposing that internal drive for a task enhances creativity, while external motivators can hinder it. It also introduces the Componential Theory of Creativity, which integrates individual abilities with the influence of the social environment, and discusses measurement techniques like the consensual assessment technique (CAT). The authors conclude by suggesting future directions, advocating for a more interdisciplinary and comprehensive understanding of creativity in its social context.

"A Creative Personality Scale for the Adjective Check List" by Harrison G. Gough

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This research introduces a new 30-item Creative Personality Scale designed for the Adjective Check List (ACL) to identify creative talent. Previous attempts to measure creativity using the ACL and intelligence tests had yielded inconclusive results. By analysing responses from various samples and using diverse criteria for creativity, the developers selected items that significantly correlated with criterion ratings of creativity across different groups. This new scale, incorporating both positive and negative items, demonstrates reliability and moderate validity, suggesting its potential as a useful tool for assessing creative potential.

"Testing Creativity and Personality to Explore Creative Potentials in the Science Classroom" by Tamara Roth, Cathérine Conradty & Franz X. Bogner

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This paper investigates how creativity and personality relate to creative potential in science classrooms. The researchers used shortened versions of two scales, the Cognitive Processes Associated with Creativity (CPAC) and the Big Five Inventory (BFI-10), to measure these aspects in secondary school students. They found connections between certain personality traits and aspects of creativity, specifically between conscientiousness and the feeling of full immersion known as "flow," and also observed gender differences in creativity depending on age, with younger boys scoring higher in "act" (conscious creative processes) and older girls scoring higher in "flow." The study concludes by suggesting pedagogical approaches, such as providing more freedom and reducing extrinsic motivators, that could help foster creativity in science education, highlighting its growing importance in a rapidly changing world.

"Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model" by Rafael Rafailov, Archit Sharma, Eric Mitchell, Stefano Ermon, Christopher D. Manning, Chelsea Finn

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This paper introduces Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), a novel method for fine-tuning large language models based on human feedback. Unlike traditional Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), which is complex and unstable, DPO simplifies the process by directly optimizing the language model policy. It achieves this by leveraging a theoretical mapping between reward functions and optimal policies, transforming the preference learning problem into a straightforward classification task. This eliminates the need for training a separate reward model or using reinforcement learning, resulting in a more stable, performant, and computationally lightweight approach that matches or surpasses RLHF in aligning language models with human preferences.

"Creative Preference Optimization" by Mete Ismayilzada, Antonio Laverghetta Jr., Simone A. Luchini, Reet Patel, Antoine Bosselut, Lonneke van der Plas, Roger Beaty

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This document introduces Creative Preference Optimization (CRPO), a novel method designed to enhance the creativity of Large Language Models (LLMs). The authors argue that existing methods often focus too narrowly on single aspects of creativity, proposing CRPO as a modular approach that integrates signals from multiple creativity dimensions—novelty, diversity, surprise, and quality—into the preference optimization process. To train and evaluate their models, they also present MUCE, a new large-scale dataset of human creativity assessments. Their experiments show that models trained with CRPO outperform baseline LLMs, including strong commercial models, in generating content that is more novel, diverse, and surprising while maintaining high quality, suggesting that directly optimizing for creativity within preference frameworks is a promising direction.

"Creative potential in educational settings: its nature, measure, and nurture" by Baptiste Barbot, Maud Besançon & Todd Lubart

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This document is a journal article from Education 3-13: International Journal of Primary, Elementary and Early Years Education titled "Creative potential in educational settings: its nature, measure, and nurture." Authored by Baptiste Barbot, Maud Besançon, and Todd Lubart, the article focuses on understanding and fostering creative potential in children. It argues against a simplistic view of creativity, proposing instead that it is multifaceted and partly domain-specific. The authors discuss the importance of accurately measuring this potential and suggest ways that educational settings can nurture creativity, highlighting the impact of classroom environment and teacher attitudes.

"EEG alpha power and creative ideation"by Andreas Fink, Mathias Benedek

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This document is an academic review article published in the journal Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, focusing on the relationship between EEG alpha power and creative ideation. It examines various studies that show a consistent link between increased alpha brainwave activity and creative thinking, suggesting this phenomenon might reflect internally directed attention or efficient memory processing. Despite some inconsistent findings in the broader field of creativity neuroscience, the authors argue that the association between alpha power and creative ideation is one of the most reliable observations and propose future research directions to clarify the specific cognitive processes involved.

by Izabela Lebuda, Darya L. Zabelina, Maciej Karwowski

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This document is a meta-analysis published in the journal "Personality and Individual Differences" that examines the relationship between mindfulness and creativity. The researchers compiled data from 20 studies conducted between 1977 and 2015, finding a statistically significant, albeit relatively weak, positive correlation between these two concepts. Notably, they discovered that the connection was stronger for certain types of mindfulness, particularly the open-monitoring aspect, and also stronger when creativity was assessed using insight tasks rather than divergent thinking tests. The study concludes that while the link exists and may even be causal, different facets of mindfulness appear to influence creative abilities in distinct ways.