computational creativity

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an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and the arts that investigates the computational modelling of creative behaviour, the development of software systems capable of producing outputs recognised as creative, and the philosophical questions about what creativity is and whether machines can genuinely possess it; computational creativity researchers build systems that generate poetry, music, visual art, narrative, and scientific hypotheses, and study both the outputs themselves and the processes through which they are generated; the field engages with questions about whether creativity requires consciousness, whether novelty and appropriateness are sufficient criteria for creative value, and what the relationship between human and machine creativity should be in collaborative contexts