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Towards a Formal Creativity Theory: Preliminary results in Novelty and Transformativeness
Lu\'is Esp\'irito Santo, Geraint Wiggins, Am\'ilcar Cardoso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02148

Towards a Formal Creativity Theory: Preliminary results in Novelty and Transformativeness
Formalizing creativity-related concepts has been a long-term goal of Computational Creativity. To the same end, we explore Formal Learning Theory in the context of creativity. We provide an introduction to the main concepts of this framework and a re-interpretation of terms commonly found in creativity discussions, proposing formal definitions for novelty and transformational creativity. This formalisation marks the beginning of a research branch we call Formal Creativity Theory, exploring how …

Jonathan Glazer Oscars Speech Backed by Joaquin Phoenix, Chloe Fineman https://variety.com/2024/film/global/jonathan-glazer-oscars-speech-support-jewish-creatives-open-letter-1235960158/

Jonathan Glazer Oscars Speech Backed by Joaquin Phoenix, Chloe Fineman
Joaquin Phoenix, Elliott Gould, Chloe Fineman and more Jewish creatives have signed an open letter supporting Jonathan Glazer's Oscars speech.

Very interesting event, likely of particular interest to Providence people:
«“Debates in AI” Symposium at Rhode Island School of Design to Explore the Confluence of Artificial Intelligence and Creative Disciplines»
https://www.risd.edu/ne…

L. Brent Bozell IV, son of right wing firebrand needs 12 years for Jan. 6: Feds
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/not-a-credible-witness-son-of-prominent-conservati…

Son of prominent conservative among first to invade Senate floor on Jan. 6 needs 12 years: Feds
Federal prosecutors say Leo Brent Bozell IV, son of a prominent right wing activist, deserves no less than 12 years in prison for what he did on Jan. 6, 2021.

Interesting paper, for those of us calibrating the threat from Large Language models https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-53303-w

The current state of artificial intelligence generative language models is more creative than humans on divergent thinking tasks - Scientific Reports
The emergence of publicly accessible artificial intelligence (AI) large language models such as ChatGPT has given rise to global conversations on the implications of AI capabilities. Emergent research on AI has challenged the assumption that creative potential is a uniquely human trait thus, there seems to be a disconnect between human perception versus what AI is objectively capable of creating. Here, we aimed to assess the creative potential of humans in comparison to AI. In the present study…

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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17519 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Closure Certificates
A barrier certificate, defined over the states of a dynamical system, is a real-valued function whose zero level set characterizes an inductively verifiable state invariant separating reachable states from unsafe ones. When combined with powerful decision procedures such as sum-of-squares programming (SOS) or satisfiability-modulo-theory solvers (SMT) barrier certificates enable an automated deductive verification approach to safety. The barrier certificate approach has been extended to refute …

Is crowdfunding a free quickstart set viable?
I'd like to prime the pump for the big crowdfund of ESPionage the Role-Playing Game of Psychics and Spies with 3 smaller ones- stand alone adventures released as quickstarters. Crowdfunding each to build an audience and mitigate some of the layout and art costs. I'm thinking of 2 levels:
"$1 - I'd like this to exist"
"$5 - I'd really like this to exist"

MouseMix095 (April 2024)
After a few years of silence, here is a new MouseMix. One hour of ccmusic in a mix. Playlist and licenses under
https://www.clongclongmoo.org/2024/04/05/mousemix095-april-2024/

im zuge meines diesjährigen england-urlaubs war ich u.a. in cardiff. das waliser wappentier ist ein roter drache – daher hat es im logo des BBC-orchesters von wales auch ein bisschen #dragoncontent, sozusagen. 🐉🎶🙃