Can Machines be creative (like humans)? – Secrets and Lies of Maths

Question: Can Machines be creative (like humans)?
- Keywords:
  creative,
  robot
Asked by shreyas to Amy, Andy Harrison, Chloe, Christina, Daniel, Deirdre, Diana, Dominique, Fiona, Gary, Giuseppe, James, Katie, Lewis, Mackenzie, Maja, Nick, Rob, Roz, Sam, Sophie, Sreejita, William on 31 Jan 2020.
- Giuseppe Cotugno answered on 31 Jan 2020:
  
  A software can be used for generating new data. This kind of software is said to use a “generative model”: some sort of equation or AI system which generates data.
  
  Such generated data can be used for things like Generative Art (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_art), to produce some art. Despite the results can be artistic, the machine which is generating it doesn’t have any idea that it is doing a creative work. For the software generative art and producing an automated reply to a question is the same thing as machines don’t have cognition of being creative because they are not sentient.

Question: Can Machines be creative (like humans)?