Creativity and Markov Decision Processes

Understand

Creativity is already regularly attributed to AI systems outside specialised computational creativity (CC) communities.

• However, the evaluation of creativity in AI at large typically lacks grounding in creativity theory, which can promote inappropriate attributions and limit the analysis of creative behaviour.
• While CC researchers have translated psychological theory into formal models, the value of these models is limited by a gap to common AI frameworks.
• To mitigate this limitation, we identify formal mappings between Boden's process theory of creativity and Markov Decision Processes (MDPs), using the Creative Systems Framework as a stepping stone.