Computational Creativity

Abstract

Abstract-Creative thinking is one of the hallmarks of human-level competence. Although it is still a poorly understood subject speculative ideas about brain processes involved in creative thinking may be implemented in computational models. A review of different approaches to creativity, insight and intuition is presented. Two factors are essential for creativity: imagination and selection or filtering. Imagination should be constrained by experience, while filtering in the case of creative use of words may be based on semantic and phonological associations. Analysis of brain processes involved in invention of new words leads to practical algorithms that create many interesting and novel names associated with a set of keywords.

Braingene: Computational creativity algorithm that invents novel interesting names

“…General neurocognitive principles of creativity are probably common to various tasks [16], [5]. Models of neurocognitive processes involved in the process of creating and understanding novel words, capturing details at different levels of approximation of brain functions, are worth developing.…”

“…Some novel names invented by the early version of this algorithm have already been published [5]. For example, the name "braingene" has been generated for the program itself based on description of its functionality.…”

“…In recent years some understanding of such processes and their relation to insight, imagination, intuition and creativity has emerged [16], [17], and this understanding is now slowly translated into computational models [18], [5], [19], [6]. These models are based on several assumptions:…”

“…Perhaps the simplest domain where creativity may be experimentally investigated and also simulated with sufficient accuracy to test "Blind Variation, Selective Retention" (BVSR) hypothesis (described in the next section) is creation of novel words [5], [6]. In this paper development of our BrainGene algorithm is described.…”

Créativité assistée par ordinateur : composer la musique d’un film en utilisant uniquement sa courbe de luminosité extraite automatiquement

“…Certains souhaitent explorer le potentiel des ordinateurs à devenir des créateurs autonomes à part entière (Bentley, 2001 ;Veale, 2019), tandis que d'autres considèrent l'ordinateur comme un outil qui aide le créateur ou l'artiste à explorer des possibilités créatives qui seraient hors de sa portée autrement (Todd, 1992). En tant que telle, la créativité computationnelle (Duch, 2013) implique « la capacité de trouver des solutions à la fois nouvelles et appropriées en utilisant des moyens informatiques » 4 . Besold et al (2015) définissent la créativité computationnelle comme « l'utilisation d'ordinateurs pour générer des résultats qui seraient considérés comme créatifs s'ils étaient produits par des humains seuls » 5 .…”