Computational Creativity: The Design of a Creative Computer Program

Computer and cognitive scientists are making serious attempts via developing algorithms which aim to simulate some aspects of human's cognitive behavior. In this context, it is not surprising that research efforts are directed towards studying human's creativity in an attempt to understand how humans produce creative content, and in what sense does it differ from cognitive content. The idea we are proposing in this research is that we may to a certain level, though humble, emulate some aspects of human creativity. We propose a method which involves designing a program that generates content that could be considered creative. It is important to note that we are not making any claim about matching human creativity level which we believe is limitless and cannot be measured. We shall apply our proposed program on a field that is considered as one of the creative fields in human life and that is based on the idea of combinatorial creativity. The field is culinary arts. The program has been tested to generate creative culinary content using the culinary knowledge of certain Arabic countries and modeling their culinary practice into several steps inspired by the pattern of their process of combining several ingredients. The results were satisfying where only 2 out of 255 were considered as unacceptable results. The program showed its ability in generating creative content in the field of culinary arts. We aim to expand our experiments and to generalize this program to suit several artistic domains.