The Machine That Cannot Dream
A Dialogue on Artificial Imagination
Before beginning, I should acknowledge that this article takes me into unusual territory. Most discussions of artificial intelligence focus on facts, data, and computation. But today I want to explore something stranger: imagination. Humans depend on imagination not only to create art or tell stories but to solve problems, plan futures, and even build scientific theories. What happens when we ask whether an artificial system can imagine?
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