Talk:Computational creativity

Merge from Artificial imagination, Creative computing and Artificial intelligence art

artificial creativity was merged here in 2008. But we missed Artificial imagination, which seems like another synonym of the concept discussed here. Thoughts? PS. I checked other synonyms listed in our lead (which currently states that computational creativity is "also known as artificial creativity, mechanical creativity, creative computing or creative computation)"), and created a few missing redirects (some others may be missing, I added one for "computer creativity"). I also discovered that there is also the rather messy article under Creative computing that should probably be merged here too. I am also concerned about Computer-generated art which redirects to Algorithmic art; I think algorithmic art is a different concept from "computational creativity", but the redirect at Computer-generated art should probably be a disambig? (We also have Computer art which this term should point to as well). PPPS. Aaargh, I also discovered we have Artificial intelligence art, another article that almost certainly needs a merge here. Lastly, given all those synonyms, some of which are hardly intuitive, I'd propose renaming this article to artificial intelligence and art (and if it was my field, i.e. one in which I'd be publishing as a scholar, I'd campaign for an artsy neologism like "art^2"...)._{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 06:43, 12 August 2021 (UTC)

Caveat: I didn't have time tonight to look at all these articles and what they cover, but this is my understanding of what these various terms mean.

Artificial imagination: I think this is a different topic, because this can refer to visualization and mental modeling, which is not the same as creativity (having original thoughts).

Computer generated art: This is closer, but still a different topic. Artificial creativity is about simulating the way human beings have original thoughts, including scientific thoughts and so on. Computer generated art is an application of artificial creativity -- it's about real, non-theoretical programs that people have already written. Some of these programs involve strictly random processes or are basically smart tools that artists have guided -- in other words, people have made "computer generated art" without using artificial creativity. Thus they are not the same topic.

Computer art: This is category of "art" and a term used by curators in the art world. It is a much broader topic than just algorithmic art or artificial creativity. It includes things like image manipulation and so on, where the computer is just functioning as a tool in the artistic process. So I think people (in the art world at least) would count programs that claim to have "artificial creativity" as one (very small) sub-category of computer art.

Algorithmic art: Similarly to "computer generated art", algorithmic art is not typically "creative". Algorithmic art includes various kinds of deterministic algorithms that have no resemblance to human "creativity".

So here's my opinion, FWIW. I wouldn't merge any of them into this article. However, I would support a merge of "algorithmic art" and "computer generated art" because it seems to me that they are very close to the same thing. Some might say "algorithmic art" is an approach to computer generated art, or others might say all computer generated art is "algorithmic" by definition. They are intertwined and could be merged.

And, I'm guessing that all these articles would benefit from a thorough review that sorts out the material correctly and has good "Main" and "See also" tags. Sadly, this is the kind of thing that Wikipedia often has trouble accomplishing -- it requires a pretty dedicated editor or team to get it right. So I'm glad you did this review, and I hope that you continue to work on this. Wikipedia needs this kind of "relevance" editing more than any other kind. ---- CharlesGillingham (talk) 07:29, 14 August 2021 (UTC)

Closing, with no further merges (noting that "algorithmic art" and "computer generated art" have already been merged), given the uncontested objection, no support and stale discussion. Klbrain (talk) 15:50, 24 December 2021 (UTC)

this article is still duplicative of the main one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence_visual_art and the repeated links to a single conference make me really suspicious. it probably should just be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2025-42177-66 (talk) 13:44, 22 December 2025 (UTC)

Update needed to cover deep learning transformers: GPT, DALL-E, etc.

This article seems to be out of date -- it doesn't include anything from the last two years. I will tag it shortly unless someone here has a plan. ---- 2A01:B747:27:344:591C:E6BF:6C1E:E44B (talk) 15:04, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Feel free to tag it as out of date. Part of the issue here is that there are multiple articles -- Artificial intelligence art‎, Computational creativity, Generative artificial intelligence, Synthetic media, Synthography, and more -- that all cover roughly the same topic, which divides editors' time, leading to issues with all of these articles. It's probably worth trying to merge some or all of these articles so we have fewer articles to focus on. Elspea756 (talk) 15:32, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

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