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The Idea Machine: LLM-based Expansion, Rewriting, Combination, and Suggestion of Ideas

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Giulia Di Fede,

Davide Rocchesso,

Salvatore AndolinaAuthors Info & Claims

C&C '22: Proceedings of the 14th Conference on Creativity and Cognition

Pages 623 - 627

https://doi.org/10.1145/3527927.3535197

Published: 20 June 2022 Publication History

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We introduce the Idea Machine, a creativity support tool that leverages large language models (LLMs) to empower people engaged in idea generation tasks. The tool includes a number of affordances that can be used to enable various levels of automation and intelligent support. Each idea entered into the system can be expanded, rewritten, or combined with other ideas or concepts. An idea suggestion mode can also be enabled to make the system proactively suggest ideas.

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