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Searching for computational creativity

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Boden’s1,2) philosophical account of creativity has been criticised on the grounds that it does not properly capture some aspects of creative situations.5) Wiggins13) has presented a formalisation of Boden’s account, which allows such issues to be examined more precisely. We explore the relationship between traditional AI search methods and Boden’s abstraction of creative behaviour, and revisit Bundy’s argument in the context of that exploration.

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  1. Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture Goldsmiths College, University of London, New Cross, SEI4 6NW, London, UK

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Geraint A. Wiggins, Ph.D.: He is Professor of Computational Creativity at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He graduated in Mathematics and Computer Sciences at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1984 and subsequently conducted doctoral research in Computational Lingusitics at the former Department of Artificial Intelligence of the University of Edinburgh, being awarded his Ph.D. in 1991. He currently leads the Intelligent Sound and Music Systems group at Goldsmiths. Geraint’s research is focused on the study of human musical creativity through computational methods. Current projects include completion of a second Ph.D. in musical composition and co-edition, with Dr Irène Deliège, of a new anthology of the field: “Musical Creativity: current research in theory and practice”.

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Wiggins, G.A. Searching for computational creativity. New Gener Comput 24, 209–222 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03037332

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