Abstract
Over the last few years, new artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have broken into a context which was supposed to be banned for them: the field of creativity. This very human ability of creating original and valuable things is setting a new challenge for computer engineers. The utopia of artificially generating a new Bach, Rembrandt, Elvis or Banksy has already become a reality. The perspective provided by the Theory of Creativity, which since the middle of the last century has been studying the psychological processes implicit in the creative phenomenon, helps us to understand this new area of technological activity. Being able to analyze what makes an AI capable to generate new and valuable answers not only implies understanding the nature of the problems it have to face. This also proposes that we observe which are the bases of its abstract thinking, the particular nature of its unconscious processes, what are the traces of his personality reflected in its creation. All this is setting a new challenge that opens the way to relevant lines of research that have yet to be determined. To face the possibility that human beings are not the only ones who can generate complex creative processes makes us feel uneasy and uncomfortable. That last redoubt we had to perceive ourselves as indispensable in a future world is already part of the capabilities of the unstoppable AI.
Presenters
Luciano MurielAssociate Professor, Communication, ESERP (UVIC: Universidad Central de Cataluña), Barcelona, Spain
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
AI, CREATIVITY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, COMPUTATIONAL CREATIVITY, ARTIFICIAL CREATIVITY
