Is human creativity a wall that AI can never scale? Many people are happy to admit that
experts in many domains can be matched by either knowledge-based or sub-symbolic …

This fascinating book explores machines as authors of fiction, past, present, and future. For
centuries, writers have dreamed of mechanical storytellers. We can now build these devices …

An authority on creativity introduces us to AI-powered computers that are creating art,
literature, and music that may well surpass the creations of humans. Today's computers are …

Human creativity has been often aided and supported by artificial tools, spanning traditional
tools such as ideation cards, pens, and paper, to computed and software. Tools for creativity …

Someday computers will be artists. They'll be able to write amusing and original stories,
invent and play games of unsurpassed complexity and inventiveness, tell jokes and suffer …

Creativity touches almost every aspect of our daily lives. Linguistic creativity is especially
pervasive, both in our communication with other people and in the constant stream of media …

Creativity is one of the least understood aspects of intelligence and is often seen
asintuitive'and not susceptible to rational enquiry. Recently, however, there has been a …

This paper attempts to establish criteria to analyse and evaluate computer models of
creativity in writing. The paper provides a brief review of the antecedents of automatic story …

The greatest rhetorical challenge to developers of creative artificial intelligence systems is
convincingly arguing that their software is more than just an extension of their own creativity …

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them.
After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's …