Can machines be creative? Recent successes in AI have shown that machines can now perform at human levels in many tasks that, just a few years ago, were considered to be decades away, like driving cars, understanding spoken language, and recognizing objects. But these are all tasks where we know what needs to be done, and the machine is just imitating us. What about tasks where the right answers are not known? Can machines be programmed to find solutions on their own, and perhaps even come up with creative solutions that humans would find difficult?

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VentureBeat, Vol. 2016/04/03 (2016).

@article{miikkulainen:venturebeat16, title={Machines Are Becoming More Creative Than Humans}, author={Risto Miikkulainen}, volume={2016/04/03}, journal={VentureBeat}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab?miikkulainen:venturebeat16", year={2016} }