I was looking for a way to measure creativity, but creativity tests like the Torrance test seem rather simple and more apt for children. The Torrance test asks you about all the things you can do with something like a brick. There aren't many good uses for a brick, except building a house or have you ever heard of another good use?!

So you might get some creative answers, but the overwhelming majority of answers will be pretty useless. The testers also rate the answers based on their judgment. A "creative" answer might be considered better than a useful answer.

The issue with with AI learning to be creative is that coming up with something "creative" is not that hard, the problem is judging this kind of creativity correctly. Someone or something has to judge it a billion times or more until the self learning AI is actually creative enough to create something unique and useful.

It's hard to automate creativity, because unlike a math question that has ONE answer to a question, a creativity question CANNOT have a single answer. There might be an unlimited number of good answers that might be considered correct. Because there is not a single answer, someone (a human) has to judge the answers and rate them.

After trying to come up with a good way to measure creativity, I think I came up with the perfect solution.

How it works

Imagine you have to play a game of chess against the best player in the world, Magnus Carlsen. The goal is to win against him, but this is not a normal game of chess. After every couple of turns, both of you are allowed to change a rule of the game. Change a rule in your favor in order to increase your chance of winning. This is a creativity test and you have to beat a much better player by changing the rules in your favor. If you are more creative than your opponent, you might be able to beat him.

This creativity test starts with any kind of game like chess and you start with the normal rules of chess. The normal/default game rules are the soft-rules that can be changed once. Once a player has decided a rule, it cannot be changed anymore. The game could start with chess and end up as football if the players want it to happen.

This test has the advantage that there are no real limits, you can use your full creativity to change the game any way you like and if you are really more creative than your opponent, you will lik...

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