Summary Children, Creativity, and the Real Key to Intelligence – Association for Psychological Science – APS www.psychologicalscience.org
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Fostering creativity in children is important for intellectual development, and AI researchers are collaborating with developmental psychologists to understand the intelligence that allows humans to learn.
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- Creativity is a key component of intelligence, and fostering creativity in children is important for their intellectual development.
- Artificial intelligence lacks the ability for creative innovation that is essential for progress. Children's minds provide a model for this type of creativity.
- AI researchers have been collaborating with developmental psychologists to understand the intelligence that allows humans to learn.
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The article highlights the importance of fostering creativity in children as a key component of intelligence. AI researchers are collaborating with developmental psychologists to understand the intelligence that allows humans to learn. Children may be the best model for truly intelligent AI because they construct knowledge based on experience. Children are active and experimental learners who actively seek out knowledge and are more exploratory than adults. In contrast, AI systems extract statistical patterns from large data sets and are supervised. The author argues that AI systems are cultural technologies that summarize and crowd-source knowledge rather than creating it. While machines are getting smarter, they still lack the ability for creative innovation that is essential for progress. Children's strategies for searching for rewards in their environment could be used to create more sophisticated forms of AI, but it is important to balance imitation and innovation in cultural transmission. This article discusses the relationship between children's creativity and intelligence, highlighting the importance of fostering creativity for intellectual development. It also briefly touches on the potential impact of artificial intelligence on society. The excerpted text, unrelated to the subject of the document, is a list of cookies used by various websites for tracking user data and behavior, providing customized ads, and performing certain functionalities on the website.
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The excerpted text is not related to the subject of the document and does not provide any information on children, creativity, or intelligence. It appears to be a list of cookies used by various websites, categorized by their purpose (advertisement, analytics, performance, functional, and necessary). The cookies are used to track user data and behavior, provide customized ads, and perform certain functionalities on the website. The article discusses research into the relationship between children's creativity and intelligence. The author argues that creativity is a key component of intelligence and that fostering creativity in children is important for their intellectual development. The article also includes information about artificial intelligence and its potential impact on society. The article discusses the importance of creative innovation in both children and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. While machines are getting smarter, they still lack the ability for creative innovation that is essential for progress. Children's strategies for searching for rewards in their environment could be used to create more sophisticated forms of AI, but it is important to balance imitation and innovation in cultural transmission. Cultural technologies, such as writing and printing, have been among the greatest engines of human progress, but they can also be dangerous if people are biased or irrational. Human innovation will always be the essential complement to the cultural technologies we create. The author argues that AI systems are cultural technologies that summarize and crowd-source knowledge rather than creating it. While AGI (artificial general intelligence) may be a goal for some, creating technologies that complement human intelligence may be a better approach. Computers excel at tasks that are difficult for humans, such as calculating chess moves, but struggle with tasks that require open-ended creativity. Children's minds provide a model for this type of creativity, which involves a challenging combination of randomness and rationality. Children are active and experimental learners who actively seek out knowledge and are more exploratory than adults. They build abstract models of the world around them, allowing them to go beyond standard statistics extraction. These models let them make radical predictions and generalizations. In contrast, AI systems extract statistical patterns from large data sets and are supervised. They struggle to generalize to new examples, especially if they are very different from previous examples. APS is interested in hearing members' thoughts on the biggest opportunities and ethical challenges that psychological science must address involving AI. The program "Machine Common Sense" aims to give AI systems some of the common-sense learning capacities that young children have. AI researchers have been collaborating with developmental psychologists to understand the intelligence that allows humans to learn. Children may be the best model for truly intelligent AI because they construct knowledge based on experience. This type of learning may be the real key to intelligence. The contrast between the creative 4-year-old and the predictable AI is evident in their responses to questions. While preschoolers may have charming and unexpected takes on the world, AI models are trained to be predictable. Psychology, especially child psychology, will play a crucial role in creating and using future technology. A researcher at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab shares a story of her 4-year-old son's observation and explanation of the clock tower on campus. This anecdote serves as an example of children's creativity and intelligence. The article, published by the Association for Psychological Science, discusses the importance of fostering creativity in children as a key component of intelligence. The article is part of the November/December 2022 issue of the Observer magazine.