Introduction
Creativity is one of the most valuable skills in the modern world, as it enables us to generate novel and useful solutions to complex problems. However, creativity is also a challenging and elusive process that often requires a lot of time, effort, and inspiration. How can we enhance our creative potential and overcome the barriers that hinder our imagination?
This is the question that motivated the development of Supermind Ideator, a generative AI system that aims to support human creativity in problem-solving tasks. Supermind Ideator was developed by a team of researchers from the Center for Collective Intelligence Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA and the School of Collective Intelligence Mohammed VI Polytechnic University, Morocco. The primary goal behind the development of Supermind Ideator was to leverage generative AI technologies to stimulate creative ideas and support creative problem-solving. The system leverages the power of natural language processing and deep learning to generate diverse and relevant ideas for any given problem statement. The system also provides feedback and guidance to help users refine and evaluate their ideas.
What is Supermind Ideator?
Supermind Ideator is an AI-assisted tool designed to generate solutions to a wide range of problems. It 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.
Key Features of Supermind Ideator
Supermind Ideator has several key features that make it a unique and powerful tool for creative problem-solving. Some of these features are:
- Problem Statement Input: Users can input a problem statement, which should be short (10-30 words), clear, and specific.
- Problem Exploration: The Ideator generates ideas that help users reflect on their problem, aiding in better understanding their goals and refining their statement.
- Solution Exploration: The Ideator shares several ideas, especially those that harness collective intelligence and Superminds, to explore potential solutions.
- Creativity Enhancement: The Ideator helps users explore possibilities they might not have considered, inviting them to think and suspend judgment.
- Domain-agnostic: Supermind Ideator can generate ideas for any problem domain, such as education, health, environment, entertainment, and more. The system can also adapt to the user’s preferences and interests by allowing them to customize the problem statement and the keywords.
Capabilities/Use Case of Supermind Ideator
The Supermind Ideator can be used to generate solutions to a variety of problems. For instance, it can help users think innovatively about a new product launch, redeploy miners whose jobs are going away as their mines close, find creative ways to choose an employee benefit plan, or identify ways to reduce freshwater consumption in a community. Further it can support human creativity in problem-solving tasks across different domains and contexts. Some of the possible use cases are:
- Social innovation: It can help users generate ideas for solving social problems, such as poverty, inequality, discrimination, violence, and more. The system can also help users identify the root causes, the stakeholders, the potential impacts, and the ethical implications of the problem and the solutions.
- Business innovation: It can help users generate ideas for creating new products, services, markets, or business models, as well as for improving existing ones. The system can also help users assess the customer needs, the competitive advantages, the revenue streams, and the risks of the problem and the solutions.
- Personal innovation: It can help users generate ideas for achieving their personal goals, such as learning new skills, pursuing new hobbies, improving their health, or finding their passion. The system can also help users evaluate their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as to plan their actions and track their progress.
How does Supermind Ideator work?
The Supermind Ideator 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. It uses a set of conceptual techniques that humans can use to trigger creative ideas. By sequencing these techniques in different orders and combinations, users can explore many different ideas for a given problem.
The Supermind Ideator system is composed of multiple layers that work together to provide structure and guidance to an otherwise open-ended problem. These layers include the User Interface, the API, and the Large Language Model (LLM). Please refer below figure for a visual representation of the layers of the Supermind Ideator System.
The LLM being used is a fine-tuned version of GPT. The fine-tuning process involved curating approximately 1600 examples of real-world organizational practices that solved problems using various innovative approaches. These examples were organized with input labels that connected the problem and case study with an associated Cognify or Groupify move.
This fine-tuned model is less constrained than the zero-shot and few-shot moves. While these earlier moves answer a question or problem with another question or idea based on the base GPT model and prompting, the fine-tuned approach changes the GPT prediction model so that output more tightly reflects the input training data.
As the training data was a corpus of case studies, the fine-tuned model produces output more akin to those case studies. This produces an interesting challenge and opportunity as the GPT system tends to produce fictional content in a coherent and sensible manner, reading as if it is stating facts.
How to Access and Use Supermind Ideator?
The Supermind Ideator is available online at their websites. Currently user has to fill their form that appears once click on button 'Join Ideator Waitlist' available on their website. Users can input a problem statement and then explore the problem and potential solutions using the tool. It is recommended to use it after generating some ideas of your own, as a complement to your imagination.
Above figure shows the Supermind Ideator Interface. The left side contains the Generate Panel where users input their problem and select Moves to run. The right side contains ideas generated by the system.
If you are interested to learn more about this model, all links are provided under source section at the end of this article.
Performance Evaluation
The Supermind Ideator was evaluated through a formative study involving 40 participants, including professional consultants, designers, and others working in organizational innovation practices across various industries. The study was conducted remotely, with each session lasting about 45 minutes on average.
Participants generally responded positively to the application, expressing excitement at its potential to aid innovation. They found the tool invaluable for exploring multiple dimensions of a problem at the inception of a project, and appreciated how it helped them think broadly and systematically about the problem space. Participants also noted that the Supermind Ideator helped them come up to speed much faster when dealing with client problems in unfamiliar domains.
One participant highlighted the tool’s ability to quickly generate results that would typically require a day-long workshop to achieve. However, some participants also pointed out areas for improvement, suggesting that the tool could be more powerful if it could explore parts of the problems farther away from the initial focus.
Future Work
The Supermind Ideator shows promising potential in aiding creative problem-solving. However, to fully realize this potential, further work is needed. This includes comprehensive, quantitative evaluations of the user experience and the speed and quality of the ideas generated by the system. There are also at least three short-term paths forward to improve the Ideator.
Conclusion
The Supermind Ideator marks a significant milestone in the journey of artificial intelligence. By leveraging a large language model, it stimulates creative problem-solving, bridging the gap between AI and human creativity. It’s not just a tool, but a testament to the potential of AI in augmenting human abilities, rather than replacing them. As we continue to refine and expand its capabilities, the Supermind Ideator promises to be a valuable asset in our quest for innovation and problem-solving in the AI era.
Source
research document - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.01937.pdf
research paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01937
website - https://ideator.mit.edu/
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