1. Imagination & Artificial Intelligence
Gagan Deep Kaur
Roll No
Prof. Ratikanta Panda
Supervisor
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

2. I M A G I N A T I O N EMOTIONS CREATIVITY PERCEPTION REASON
INTELLIGENCE
I M A G I N A T I O N

3. Imagination and Reason
Reason – Ability to think abstractly, make comparisons,
analyze, categorize
- rule governed
- laws, axioms, theorems
- raw, inflexible
Imagination – ability to visualize - think about possibilities
- no rules
- reaches where Reason can not
- flexible – fickleness?

4. Imagination and Reason
Imagination organizes rationality, gives meaning to our experience
Evaluations done by reason but made possible by imagination
Two way interaction – Reason makes imagination sane
Pathologies of Imagination

5. Imagination and Perception
Perception – a process of being aware about the world,
interplay of five senses, “understanding” of the world
Imagination
- organizes and completes our perceptual experience by providing
missing links
- an important factor in apprehending a phenomenon
Case of Optical Illusions
Two way interaction – perception stimulates imagination

6. Kossylyn’s Duck-Rabbit figure

7. Imagination and Emotions
Emotions – feelings, mental state of an individual, expressed through
various kinds of behaviors
Imagination
- makes emotions possible in many cases
- heightens the significance of a given situation
Two way interaction – emotions influencing imagination
- fine-tuning the quality of particular imagining.

8. Imagination and Creativity
Creativity – Process of creating something novel and useful
idea, artifact, object,
Creativity - domain specific, works in Constraints only
Imagination - gives birth to creativity by devising constraints and means
to transcend those
Two way interaction – constraints stimulate imagination

9. EMOTIONS
CREATIVITY
REASON
PERCEPTION
INTELLIGENCE
IMAGINATION

10. Creativity
Emotions
Perception
Reason

11. Various Emotions displayed by Kismet, MIT Lab, 2000
surprise
happiness

15. Creativity
Emotions
Perception
Reason
I M A G I N A T I O N ????

16. Selected Internet Sources
For Numpeung’s drawings -
For Aaron’s drawings -
For Kismet moods -
and
For detail on Kismet’s functions -
Rest is part of my research!

17. Thanks!