The Leonardo Paradox: Imagining the Ultimately Creative Computer
Robert Emmett Mueller · Leonardo · 1990
If someday a computer that achieves a high level of human creativity is designed and programmed, it would perhaps not be unlike Leonardo da Vinci in its scientific and artistic output. Such a device would give rise to some curious paradoxes due, in large part, to the reproducibility and communicability of electronic systems such as computers. While many fear that such a device would in its final form mark the death of the personal human imagination, the author feels that this type of device could become an important aid in solving the increasingly complex scientific and social difficulties besetting humankind and could serve as an avenue for an expanded spectrum of new art forms.