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Study of nature's complex behaviour systems
Generative science is an area of research that explores the natural world and its complex behaviours. It explores ways "to generate apparently unanticipated and infinite behaviour based on deterministic and finite rules and parameters reproducing or resembling the behavior of natural and social phenomena". By modelling such interactions, it can suggest that properties exist in the system that had not been noticed in the real world situation. An example field of study is how unintended consequences arise in social processes. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Generative scienceA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Examining Science Education in ChatGPT: An Exploratory Study of Generative Artificial IntelligenceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Invisible ManThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Art and the science of generative AICited 779 times
- Go sideways: Agent-based social simulationA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Computational sociologyA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Art and the science of generative AI
What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science
Learning science: A generative process
Can Generative AI improve social science?
Generative effects of note-taking during science lectures.
Deep Generative Models for Molecular Science
Science communication with generative AI
Agent-based computational models and generative social science
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
The Invisible ManH. G. Wells
The Martian ChroniclesRay Bradbury · 1950
SolarisStanisław Lem · 1961
MicrobiologyGerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke · 1982
UbikPhilip K. Dick · 1969
The End of EternityIsaac Asimov · 1955
The Caves of SteelIsaac Asimov · 1953
BiologyNeil Alexander Campbell · 1987
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