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The Creation Game: of AI and human creativity

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Here I propose the ‘Creation Game’, inspired by the Turing test, to assess the capacity of artificial intelligence for human-like creativity, focusing on its potential for scientific discovery about the human immune system in the field of systems vaccinology.

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This essay is based is on a lecture given by the author at the symposium on ‘AI and Immunology’ at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) on 28–29 May 2024.

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  1. Institute for Immunity, Transplantation and Infection, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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  2. Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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  3. Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

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