Can Computers Be Creative?

SciArt in America just ran a story on David Cope, a computer scientist-musician in California (http://www.sciartinamerica.com/blog/-can-computers-write-meaningful-music). He has succeeded in writing software for generating music that is difficult to distinguish from music written by humans, J.S. Bach being one of his examples. To me this raises an important point: Can Cope’s software tell us something … Read more