DeepCreativity: measuring creativity with deep learning techniques
What is it about?
Creativity, and its apparent inexplicability, has always fascinated the human kind. Several theories and approaches have been developed during the last century to define and evaluate it. In this article, we propose to use deep learning to quantify the creativity of human or artificial products. In particular, three different techniques are developed to measure three of the fundamental criteria of creativity: value, novelty, and surprise. Preliminary studies on American poetry suggest that deep learning may be suitable for such a problem.
Why is it important?
It is one of the first attempts of defining an automatic way to measure creativity. In addition, it is based on broadly accepted theories of human creativity, i.e., that value, novelty and surprise are central for the creative products.