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Author
Brendan Dixon
Date
May 20, 2019

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity

Tagged
Creativity, Jackson Pollock, Marcus du Sautoy}

Could AI Authentically Create Anything?

_{Brendan Dixon: The first question posed to me as an artist was,“What are you trying to say?”} _{Brendan Dixon

May 20, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

Du Sautoy believes that AI will “in the distant future” achieve consciousness. For that, we have no evidence. It is a statement of religious faith akin to that of Anthony Levandowski's AI Church.

Why AI Fails To Actually Create Things

_{Only one of the traits du Sautoy suggests is an essential part of creativity} _{Brendan Dixon

May 17, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Creativity}

Du Sautoy’s fourth trait—“originality of a truly independent nature”—is a useful part of the definition of creativity. It is, however, the one trait that he admits is missing from AI’s “creative” attempts