Lecture: Creativity in man and machine

Creativity is one of the most fascinating human abilities and a key driving force behind many cultural and technical innovations. What light does modern neuroscience shed on the phenomenon of creativity? To what extent can artificial intelligence (AI) help us to better understand creativity or to become more creative? And is contemporary AI already as creative as we humans?
In this lecture, Prof. Kaschube used a number of examples to describe the current state of research into these questions. Promising approaches of current research were outlined to better characterize the multifaceted phenomenon of creativity, to make it empirically measurable and to break down the creative process into components that can be investigated neuroscientifically – which also helps to better understand the creative potential of AI.