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SUMMARY:Does artificial creativity require artificial consciousness? - Tom
  McClelland (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
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CONTACT:Matt Farr
DESCRIPTION:AI has displayed notable originality across the domains of art
 \, science and gaming. But is it right to say that such machines are creat
 ive? This question is bound up with other challenging questions about the 
 capacities of artificial systems. Human creativity typically involves some
  conscious experience of the creative project. If consciousness is necessa
 ry for creativity then a case could be made that these (presumably) uncons
 cious machines are not really creative. I argue that there is no compellin
 g case for thinking that consciousness is _generally_ necessary for creati
 vity. However\, lessons learned from this discussion suggest that a more l
 ocalised claim about aesthetic creativity has greater promise. I argue tha
 t consciousness is required for creativity in aesthetic tasks. If an AI la
 cks consciousness then it is incapable of aesthetic experience\, and witho
 ut aesthetic experience it cannot engage in aesthetic creative projects.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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