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▪️Machine Creativity Before AI

> Hopes and fears in fact and fiction

20w▪️Machine Creativity Before AI

"This machine can produce a five-thousand-word story, all typed and ready for dispatch, in thirty seconds. How can the writers compete with that?"

20w▪️Machine Creativity Before AI

"I'm almost never around when it's generating images in my studio. It generally happens at night, while I'm sleeping."

20w▪️Machine Creativity Before AI

"It's a fusion of a mechanized world and a human soul!"

20w▪️Machine Creativity Before AI

"It was for the light-sculpture more than anything else that the guests came. It was never the same twice, and never failed to explore new experimental avenues of art."

20w▪️Machine Creativity Before AI

"Unerring is my hand tho' small may I not add with truth / I do my best to please you all encourage then my youth"

20w▪️Machine Creativity Before AI

"The project may turn out to be of interest to scholars in the future…. Think about it—a blind man teaching an android how to paint?"

20w▪️Machine Creativity Before AI

"Mechanical music-making is nothing more than a particular system invented by us whereby anyone, even the unmusical, may... compose melodies according to a desired style."

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