Does ( Ai ) creativity demand new forms of reasoning ? Always - it is the nature of creativity itself to birth from what is known and unknown a corpus of the impossible in order to bring about useful innovation that can ( in some cases ) be realized as new product development and today where Collective Ai Twins may improve prove that path but how?
Recently with the further development and evolution of the the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus ARC-AGI ( a benchmark designed to measure artificial general intelligence and fluid intelligence by testing a system's ability to learn and solve brand-new, unfamiliar puzzles ) we see the 1st inklings of Ai mechanisms that can with a very small sample set, sometimes even just two images, solve visual problems at the same level of humans. In the ARC-AGI mechanism and initially used as problem solving system, a path to alternative creative outputs can also be realized and as described in The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Abstract Reasoning.
Where this becomes particularly interesting is when Test-Time Training ( TTT ) data with digital ( human ) twins and within the context of either corporate work based employee Ai data-stores ( think, your work Ai, just like your work cell phone ) or on personal Third Self data-stores is where, new unexpected levels of creativity and innovation can be achieved. This is possible in the case of combining TTT systems with program-synthesis methods where a 61.9% accuracy is achieved, and which matches the average human score on ARC tests. And in this case, this is ONLY with incredibly small amounts of training data sometimes referred to as " one shot " training. Imagine with relatively unlimited data from just one Third Self or incredibly small amounts of data from large groups of Third Self data stores.
In the cases where we can look at simple problem solving examples where TTT and ARC-AGI systems shows the model variations of a puzzle using rotations, flips, and permuted orders and where puzzles consist of small grid-based visual patterns (ranging from 1x1 to 30x30 squares) where the solver must look at a few input-output demonstration pairs, deduce the hidden transformation rule, and apply it to a new input grid, this is just the most basic example of proving the validity of the TTT and ARC-AGI functionality and where this idea was originally created in 2019 by AI researcher François Chollet and primarily due to the need to reduce compute / token cycles to it's smallest amount as at that time GPU and even cloud based GPU systems were incredibly expensive ( in processor time and thus cost to end user ) and Ai model optimization was ( and in many cases is ) the focus of Ai research - reduce compute time while increasing effectiveness as the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is a unique benchmark designed to measure AI skill acquisition and track progress towards achieving human-level AI. But this is not creativity or innovation. Or is it ?
With advances in large cloud computing GPU and TPU systems ( and soon to be internet everywhere accessible local models ) a new class of queryable digital twins is now emerging: individual Ai personas / digital twins based on in office and online activity of a firm's employees and as 1st detailed in 2001 as The Third Self but today realized in firms such as Viven, Eudia, Twin1 each having received 10's of millions in funding from Silicon Valley powerhouses such as Foundation Capital, Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tribeca Venture Partners, and Aramco Ventures. Where these Ai Digital Twins previously were the domain of electrical systems for building management and physical product mechanical engineering devices, Ai and Neuromorphic computing has further pushed the boundaries in this area.
Combined with the latest breakthrough at the National University of Singapore (NUS), led by Associate Professor Mario Lanza from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the College of Design and Engineering and where it has been possible to ( with standard silicon based transistors ) a the silicon transistor can mimic the firing behavior of biological neurons and synapses when a bulk terminal connection is left unhooked or operated in an unconventional way, creating massive amounts of internal charge trapping and punch-through impact ionization. The startup that has emerged from this NewMorphic ( and based on some of the original Neuromorphic computing architectures ) has the potential to change the way Ai systems can be run on incredibly small processors. Now your smart watch is your Third Self on your wrist. For addressable and always on creativity systems, this has the innovative power possibly beyond our wildest ( current ) dreams.
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