The Computational Creativity Complex
Dan A. Ventura · Atlantis thinking machines · 2014
We briefly examine the subject of computational creativity through the lenses of three different systems for producing creative artifacts in three different domains: music, visual art and cookery. From these we attempt to abstract something of a “general-purpose” computationally creative agent and examine how this agent might behave in the context of an archetypical “algorithm” for creativity. Finally, we consider this agent’s behavior from the point of view of the theory of (Turing) computability and suggest that computational creativity as a field provides an interesting opportunity for looking at computational complexity in new ways.