  Previous efforts to support creative problem-solving have included (a)
techniques (such as brainstorming and design thinking) to stimulate creative
ideas, and (b) software tools to record and share these ideas. Now, generative
AI technologies can suggest new ideas that might never have occurred to the
users, and users can then select from these ideas or use them to stimulate even
more ideas. Here, we describe such a system, Supermind Ideator. The system uses
a large language model (GPT 3.5) and adds prompting, fine tuning, and a user
interface specifically designed to help people use creative problem-solving
techniques. Some of these techniques can be applied to any problem; others are
specifically intended to help generate innovative ideas about how to design
groups of people and/or computers ("superminds"). We also describe our early
experiences with using this system and suggest ways it could be extended to
support additional techniques for other specific problem-solving domains.
