6. Artificial and augmented creativity

The publication at the end of 2015 of the Tensorflow deep learning library profoundly changed both our vision and our experience of creativity. Without getting into the controversy about non-human creativity here, the results obtained by AlphaGo, creativity assisted by artificial intelligence technologies, are increasingly inescapable. AlphaGo has created novel and particularly counter-intuitive strategies in the game of Go, which are now being studied by human players. Here, we will discuss two types of approach:...