Artificial Creative Systems and the Evolution of Language
Robert N. Saunders · 2011
Most studies of human creativity have focused on in-dividuals, assuming that creativity can be defined with respect to the characteristics, processes or activities of extraordinary people. Computational models of creativ-ity have often inherited this assumption and emphasised generative processes to the exclusion of considering so-cial or cultural aspects. This paper presents work to ex-tend computational models of social creativity to sup-port the evolution of domain specific languages. Artifi-cial creative societies provide the opportunity for study-ing creativity-as-it-as in the context of creativity-as-it-could-be. The computational model of an artificial cre-ative systems presented here extends previous compu-tational models by introducing a linguistic component that supports the production and sharing of works with associated descriptions. This paper examines the poten-tial for this extended model of social creativity to sup-port the study of the roles that language plays in the formation, interaction and maintenance of creative do-mains.