Can a computer be creative , Dr Anna Jordanous, Think Kent

THINK KENT INTERNATIONAL THINKERS, GLOBAL IMPACT Can computers be creative This seems like a contradiction. Computers are very good at mechanical tasks, churning through large data, processing, calculating And recently weve become used to computers doing more intelligent things. Computers have become an essential part of our lives, for example the smartphone which is ubiquitous in modernday life. We constantly use computers to help us find out information online, guide us from A to B when were lost, document things we are doing at work, and so on. But isnt a computer just a machine whereas creativity is a uniquely human concept that needs something more than mechanical mindless processing Actually, one area of artificial intelligence research looks at exactly the question of how a computer can be creative. Incomputational creativity, we study how and if computers can be creative. The goal is to model, simulate or replicate creativity computationally. In this talk, Dr Anna Jordanous from the