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(1988) Aspects of artificial intelligence, Dordrecht, Springer.

Automating creativity

Richard Scheines

pp. 339-365

Critics of the very idea of artificial intelligence1 fall into two main classes. There are those who argue that it is impossible to build a machine that truly mimics human cognitive behavior, and there are those who argue that even if a machine could mimic cognitive behavior, it would never "really" have the emotional experiences we humans do. Critics in the first class usually argue their case by pointing to a cognitive task that humans accomplish with ease but which a computer could not, even in principle, do. Because creativity is mysterious, seemingly impossible to teach, and not subject to any easily discernible set of "rules", it is a popular candidate for such a cognitive task.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2699-8_13

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Scheines, R. (1988)., Automating creativity, in J. H. Fetzer (ed.), Aspects of artificial intelligence, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 339-365.

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