What do brains teach us about whether AI is creative?

From a neuroscience point of view, what is creativity? How does it shine light on the current lawsuits over large language models and whether they produce anything fundamentally new… or are simply remixing the old? How do the arts expose something important about what’s happening in the human brain? What do we know about the cultural evolution of ideas? And what does any of this have to do with how cell phones got their names, and why koala bears don’t write novels? Join Eagleman and his guest, composer Anthony Brandt, as they uncover the surprises about creativity.

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Eagleman D, Brandt A. The runaway species: How human creativity remakes the world. Catapult; 2017 Oct 10.

Reisner, A. (2024, February 29). Generative AI Might Finally Bend Copyright Past the Breaking Point. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/generative-ai-lawsuits-copyright-fair-use/677595/

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