The Concept of Machine Creativity by Margaret Boden
Autorin: Janina Bodendörfer
- Introduction
The Concept of Machine Creativity, coined by British cognitive scientist Margaret Boden, is a theory identifying three different types of human creativity and aiming to transfer them to machines. Similar to Alan Turing, who replaced the question „Can a computer be intelligent?“ with a test (called the Imitation Game), Boden replaces the question „Can a computer be creative?“ with her concept of machine creativity. While Turing’s test is supposed to show whether a computer can give the impression of being intelligent, analogously, Boden’s concept should help to determine whether a computer can give the impression of being creative.[1]