Alien Recombination: Exploring Concept Blends Beyond Human Cognitive Availability in Visual Art

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.11494v1
• Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:55:38 GMT
• Title: Alien Recombination: Exploring Concept Blends Beyond Human Cognitive Availability in Visual Art
• Authors: Alejandro Hernandez, Levin Brinkmann, Ignacio Serna, Nasim Rahaman, Hassan Abu Alhaija, Hiromu Yakura, Mar Canet Sola, Bernhard Schölkopf, Iyad Rahwan,
• Abstract summary: We show how AI can transcend human cognitive limitations in visual art creation. Our research hypothesizes that visual art contains a vast unexplored space of conceptual combinations. We present the Alien Recombination method to identify and generate concept combinations that lie beyond human cognitive availability.
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• Abstract: While AI models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in constrained domains like game strategy, their potential for genuine creativity in open-ended domains like art remains debated. We explore this question by examining how AI can transcend human cognitive limitations in visual art creation. Our research hypothesizes that visual art contains a vast unexplored space of conceptual combinations, constrained not by inherent incompatibility, but by cognitive limitations imposed by artists' cultural, temporal, geographical and social contexts. To test this hypothesis, we present the Alien Recombination method, a novel approach utilizing fine-tuned large language models to identify and generate concept combinations that lie beyond human cognitive availability. The system models and deliberately counteracts human availability bias, the tendency to rely on immediately accessible examples, to discover novel artistic combinations. This system not only produces combinations that have never been attempted before within our dataset but also identifies and generates combinations that are cognitively unavailable to all artists in the domain. Furthermore, we translate these combinations into visual representations, enabling the exploration of subjective perceptions of novelty. Our findings suggest that cognitive unavailability is a promising metric for optimizing artistic novelty, outperforming merely temperature scaling without additional evaluation criteria. This approach uses generative models to connect previously unconnected ideas, providing new insight into the potential of framing AI-driven creativity as a combinatorial problem.

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