An Overview of Artificial Creativity

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Artificial Creativity

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Summary

Artificial Creativity (or computational creativity) is a branch of Artificial Intelligence that deals with the development and exploration of systems that exhibit creative behavior. This includes systems capable of such things as scientific invention, visual artistry, music composition and story generation.

Introduction

Artificial Creativity Banner Artificial creativity is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) that deals with constructing machines with creative abilities. Although tightly intertwined with general AI research, recent years have brought increased focus on creativity as an independent branch of AI due to its complexity and difficulty of implementation.

In the 1956 Dartmouth Proposal for Artificial Intelligence, in a seven-point list of the Artificial Intelligence problem, creativity and randomness were specifically addressed:

7. Randomness and Creativity
A fairly attractive and yet clearly incomplete conjecture is that the difference between creative thinking and unimaginative competent thinking lies in the injection of a some randomness. The randomness must be guided by intuition to be efficient. In other words, the educated guess or the hunch include controlled randomness in otherwise orderly thinking.

In addition, originality, invention and discovery was mentioned on several occasions throughout the proposal.

Defining Creativity

As with natural intelligence, creativity has remained extremely hard to define. Creativity exhibits itself and effects behavior to a large degree (especially in humans), which makes it very hard to identify its distinguishing features and nature. No empirical definition or authoritative perspective on creativity exists within scientific circles.

A temporary solution has been to define artificial creativity by reference to its natural counterpart: “Artificial Creativity is concerned with producing behavior in machines, which if acted out by a human, would be deemed creative“. This has also been noted in artificial intelligence research in general, where a system is deemed intelligent if it exhibits traits similar to natural intelligence.

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