Natale, S and Henrickson, L orcid.org/0000-0001-8008-2373 (2022) The Lovelace Effect: Perceptions of Creativity in Machines. New Media and Society. ISSN 1461-4448
Abstract
This article proposes the notion of the ‘Lovelace Effect’ as an analytical tool to identify situations in which the behaviour of computing systems is perceived by users as original and creative. It contrasts the Lovelace Effect with the more commonly known ‘Lovelace objection’, which claims that computers cannot originate or create anything, but only do what their programmers instruct them to do. By analysing the case study of AICAN – an AI art-generating system – we argue for the need for approaches in computational creativity to shift focus from what computers are able to do in ontological terms to the perceptions of human users who enter into interactions with them. The case study illuminates how the Lovelace effect can be facilitated through technical but also through representational means, such as the situations and cultural contexts in which users are invited to interact with the AI.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2022. This is an author produced version of an article accepted for publication in New Media and Society. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Ada Lovelace, AICAN, artificial creativity, artificial intelligence, computational creativity, computer-generated art, human–machine communication, Lovelace objection, Turing test |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jan 2022 15:09 |
Last Modified: | 10 Mar 2022 01:27 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/14614448221077278 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:182906 |