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On Creativity, Value, and Machines

A position paper. "Can AI be creative?" is malformed — creativity is novelty × value, and AI has made novelty abundant while leaving value scarce. Three "value oracles" make machine creativity sharply domain-dependent.

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Ideas Are Cheap Now

We spent seventy years asking whether machines can be creative. We were arguing about the wrong word.