Download e-book for iPad: Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: An Interdisciplinary by T. Dartnall

Creativity is without doubt one of the least understood points of intelligence and is usually noticeable as `intuitive' and never at risk of rational enquiry. lately, although, there was a resurgence of curiosity within the quarter, mostly in synthetic intelligence and cognitive technology, but additionally in psychology, philosophy, computing device technological know-how, common sense, arithmetic, sociology, and structure and layout. This quantity brings this interact and offers an summary of this swiftly constructing box. It addresses more than a few matters. Can desktops be artistic? Can they assist us to appreciate human creativity? How can synthetic intelligence (AI) increase human creativity? How, specifically, can it give a contribution to the `sciences of the artificial', reminiscent of layout? Does the hot wave of AI (connectionism, geneticism and synthetic existence) supply extra promise in those parts than classical, symbol-handling AI? What could the implications be for AI and cognitive technology if pcs might not be inventive?
those matters are explored in 5 interrelated components, every one of that's introducted and defined through a number one determine within the box.
- Prologue (Margaret Boden)
- half I: Foundational matters (Terry Dartnall)
- half II: Creativity and Cognition (Graeme S. Halford and Robert Levinson)
- half III: Creativity and Connectionism (Chris Thornton)
- half IV: Creativity and layout (John Gero)
- half V: Human Creativity Enhancement (Ernest Edmonds)
- Epilogue (Douglas Hofstadter)
For researchers in AI, cognitive technology, machine technology, philosophy, psychology, arithmetic, common sense, sociology, and structure and layout; and somebody attracted to the swiftly starting to be box of synthetic intelligence and creativity.