Whenever this topic comes up someone with a very engineering-centric attitude jumps on the opportunity to downplay the complexity of the concept of "creativity". Often using the word "just".. I would argue that something like creativity is far too difficult to even define, let alone model and synthesize, to ever be adorned with the modifier "just".
While this is a highly philosophical topic, I can say, on the difficulty of defining creativity from a scientific point of view, is that more and more what I think is considered "true creativity" is fundamentally a social concept, and as such, even though computers are good at reproducing patters and variations on patterns, they will never be "truly creative" until they become independent members of society, whatever that means. So as cool as machine learning is getting these days, this would require a leap in AI that is still rather far away (imho).
That's why I think it's a little optimistic to label something as complex as creativity as being "just" anything. Creativity is social, insofar as it is defined and recognized by human society, and machines are.. not. Yet.
While this is a highly philosophical topic, I can say, on the difficulty of defining creativity from a scientific point of view, is that more and more what I think is considered "true creativity" is fundamentally a social concept, and as such, even though computers are good at reproducing patters and variations on patterns, they will never be "truly creative" until they become independent members of society, whatever that means. So as cool as machine learning is getting these days, this would require a leap in AI that is still rather far away (imho).
That's why I think it's a little optimistic to label something as complex as creativity as being "just" anything. Creativity is social, insofar as it is defined and recognized by human society, and machines are.. not. Yet.