Generative AI: Reflections on Intelligence and Creativity

Dear Colleagues,

Generative artificial intelligence marks a new phase in the digital revolution that is transforming people’s everyday lives, impacting the workplace, and changing society. Known through tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, MidJourney, Sora, and hundreds of other more specialized systems, generative artificial intelligence is a rapidly expanding applied domain. Algorithms trained on large datasets through advanced computational hardware are able to support humans in diverse tasks involving text, image, sound, and video. These programs produce outputs that correspond, at least for many users, to intelligent and/or creative productions, depending on the given task. In the foreseeable future, agentic reasoning will increase the autonomy of AI algorithms, challenging the present paradigm of human–machine interaction.

This Special Issue is proposed in collaboration with the ISSCI, the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation. It offers the opportunity for scholars from a wide range of disciplines to reflect on the intelligence, creativity, and problem-solving capacities of generative AI systems, across domains or within specific application domains (e.g. engineering, design, law, art, and education). Topics such as the meaning of intelligence or creativity, the degree to which output from generative AI is intelligent or creative, the cognitive processes of such systems compared to human processes, the strengths and weaknesses of these systems, the ethical and sociocultural implications, and the way that human intelligence and creativity may be connected with or impacted by these systems are examples of potential topics relevant to this Special Issue. The types of contributions that can be part of the Special Issue include original empirical research, theoretical frameworks, literature reviews, and position papers.

We welcome authors to submit a brief abstract with a suggested topic for an article, article type (empirical, review, position, or other), authors, and affiliation before 23 June 2024 (Alan Turing’s birthday). The submission of an abstract is for pre-screening and suggestions from the Special Issue editors (this phase is not mandatory).

The deadline for priority processing is 27 November 2024 (date of death of Ada Lovelace).

The final extended deadline is 8 February 2025 (John von Neumann, date of death).

Papers will be processed as received and published (with a note that the paper is part of the Special Issue) in a continuous manner in the Journal of Intelligence. In the end, papers may also be published as a specific reprint form that collects all publication in this Special Issue. Papers are published in open access.

Prof. Dr. Todd Lubart
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Emanuele Corazza
Prof. Dr. Ronald Beghetto
Guest Editors

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