Systematic Creativity Algorithms: New Paradigm Opportunities For Artificial Intelligence. Paper presented at First Computer-Aided Innovation conference

This paper examines one of the main limitations in present-day computer systems – the lack of ability to make useful creative leaps – and suggests how some of the tools of TRIZ might be adapted to produce at least the first few tentative steps towards a viable and practicable computer-aided innovation capability. The paper is divided into three main sections; a first examining the importance of the discontinuous ‘jump ’ in the creative process; a second exploring a so-called Para-Discontinuity Effect – in which the 40 Principles of classical TRIZ are re-formulated in a manner that makes them amenable to deployment in an automated algorithm; and then a third in which we attempt to chart the relatively unmapped territory between knowledge and wisdom and explore the role that computer-aided innovation systems might play in bridging what may currently be seen as a rather large ga