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The process used by Robert Todonai’s AI artist

But was it creative? Cohen thought not, once saying that debates over its intelligence could be answered if it one day signed its name on a painting: "AARON is an entity, not a person; and its unmistakeable artistic style is a product of its entitality, if I may coin a term, not its personality."

British computer scientist Simon Colton has defined a creative system as one which can produce novel and skilful artefacts – and assess them. And Hideki Nakawaza, a Japanese artist who