Previous efforts to support creative problem-solving have included (a) techniques (such as brainstorming and design thinking) to stimulate creative ideas, and (b) software tools to record and share these ideas. Now, generative AI technologies can suggest new ideas that might never have occurred to the users, and users can then select from these ideas or use them to stimulate even more ideas. Here, we describe such a system, Supermind Ideator. The system uses a large language model (GPT 3.5) and adds prompting, fine tuning, and a user interface specifically designed to help people use creative problem-solving techniques. Some of these techniques can be applied to any problem; others are specifically intended to help generate innovative ideas about how to design groups of people and/or computers ("superminds"). We also describe our early experiences with using this system and suggest ways it could be extended to support additional techniques for other specific problem-solving domains.
翻译:先前支持创造性问题解决的努力包括:(a)激发创意想法的技术(如头脑风暴和设计思维),以及(b)记录和分享这些想法的软件工具。如今,生成式人工智能技术能够提出用户可能从未想到的新想法,用户可以选择这些想法,或利用它们激发更多创意。本文描述了这样一个系统——超思维构思者。该系统采用大语言模型(GPT 3.5),并增加了专门为帮助人们运用创造性问题解决技术而设计的提示、微调及用户界面。其中某些技术可适用于任何问题;另一些则专门旨在生成关于如何设计由人和/或计算机组成的群体(“超思维”)的创新想法。我们还介绍了使用该系统的初步经验,并提出了将其扩展以支持其他特定问题解决领域更多技术的方法。