Senja Pollak
Computational Creativity: New Research Paradigm, Great Vision or an Illusion
While the field of artificial intelligence has provided solutions in a large variety of tasks requiring “intelligence”, from medicine, finance, to translation industry, a relatively new interdisciplinary field of computational creativity focusses on the question of how computers can perform creatively. In computational creativity, computer systems can be used for creative generation of new artefacts, for support to human creativity or for a better understanding of what humans evaluate as creative.
We will briefly discuss different fields of computational creativity, such as musical, visual, conceptual creativity, creativity in games. We will present in more details some examples of linguistic and scientific creativity. The questions that arise are: can computers produce jokes, poems and metaphors or help humans get new creative ideas; can computers generate new scientific hypotheses or help researchers get new ideas?
The talk will provide some examples from computational creativity research and more specifically from FP7 European projects WHIM, ConCreTe and ProSecco that will conclude just in autumn 2016.