| by Dr. Stephen Thaler
Imagination-Engines.com is
the world's first company dedicated to producing neural networks capable
of human level invention, discovery, and artistic creativity.
In explaining IEI's primary
mission we note a very important characteristic which human minds and neural
networks share. Both dream.
That is, cut off from any
kind of sensory inputs from the external world, both systems generate impressions
borrowed from their surroundings, without the relevant features actually
being present.
In waking humans this virtual
reality is termed 'internal imagery' to distinguish it from observed reality
and the corresponding process of 'perception'.
Humans use this phenomenon
to their advantage by modifying, exaggerating, and combining such internal
images to arrive at discoveries, concepts, and inventions.
Likewise, artificial neural
networks may be coaxed to carry out this very same creative process when
subjected to controlled perturbations to their internal architectures.
Thus, isolated from any kind
of meaningful inputs a neural network, thusly exposed to internal noise,
may indefinitely produce a continuous parade of diverse images, concepts,
or general impressions that can be gradually contorted and combined to
produce new and potentially useful juxtapositional notions. This is a landmark
discovery made at IEI and elaborated into a profound invention:
Imagine now that we allow
one particular neural network to freely dream in this way, while allowing
a waking network to monitor the dreams of the first, ever alert to the
appearance of some useful or interesting concept.
In this way we produce a
so-called 'Creativity Machine', a device which autonomously creates useful
information, all in exchange for a constant stream of unintelligible noise
fed into this system.
As these systems inexorably
crank out one idea after another, the alert partner network ultimately
captures that long sought solution or finds an application for some novel
concept or image.
The use of focusing techniques
are employed to deliberately narrow dream content to produce a stream of
only the most relevant concepts in solving a given problem.
We anticipate the Creativity
Machine to be a powerful new paradigm in both software and hardware design,
allowing computers to tackle problems involving not only exceedingly complex
systems, but also issues in aesthetics and emotions.
As an added asset, the Creativity
Machine is capable of displaying all the characteristics of free will and
the accompanying initiative to take new directions in the course of discovery.
As a result, we are now approaching
a major crossroads in technology where machines will use these principles
to attain a potential independence and autonomy never before seen.
At last, mankind will have
that long sought conversational partner that can not only exchange verbally,
but generate whole, vivid, alternative realities, fulfilling every purpose
imaginable.
Dr. Stephen Thaler - email:
sthaler@ix.netcom.com voice: (314) 576-1617 - fax: (314) 434-8591
http://www.imagination-engines.com/xsum2.htm
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