Will the real artist stand up?: Computational creativity as mirror to the human soul
2021 (English)In: AISB Convention 2021: Communication and Conversations, The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour , 2021, p. 72-78Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
This paper argues that a too-expansive view on creativity is unhelpful at best and deeply misleading at worst. As with “representation”, the word “creativity” comes value-laden in ways that researchers cannot lightly get away from, if they can escape at all; simply claiming that one is using the word in a technical sense is not a solution. Neither should one take an overly narrow view that takes advantage of a priori arguments to deny creativity to classes of agents or putative agents solely by their membership in those classes. The paper proceeds by offering a definition of creativity meant to prejudice neither human being nor artefact; then setting out the conditions for a putative creative agent to be a creative agent, concluding that no existing artefactual agents appear to fall into this category; finally, addressing the question of why computers, computer programs, robots, and related artefacts have nevertheless had a profound – indeed, transformational – effect on human creativity, taking creativity to places that neither human beings nor artefacts could have gone on their own. It ends with a discussion of the person I see as one of the key early voices on computational creativity.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour , 2021. p. 72-78
Keywords [en]
Computational creativities, Human being, Human creativity, Setting outs, Technical sense, Artificial intelligence, computational creativity, consciousness, concepts, semiotic hierarchy, Alan Turing
National Category
Information Systems Philosophy
Research subject
Consciousness and Cognitive Neuroscience
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-20258Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85109086549ISBN: 978-1-7138-2942-3 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-20258DiVA, id: diva2:1583127
Conference
AISB Convention 2021, Communication and Conversations, Online 7-9 April 2021
Note
© 2021 AISB Convention 2021: Communication and Conversations. All rights reserved.
Originally intended for (postponed to 2021): The 7th Computational Creativity Symposium at AISB 2020 (The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour), Communication and Conversations (CC2020), London, 8 April, 2020
2021-08-052021-08-052021-10-26Bibliographically approved