Arts, computers and artificial intelligence

Science and art seem to belong to different cultures. Science and technology, mainly the products of the intellect, use terminology and vocabulary that are concise and well defined. In contrast, in artistic expression, ambiguity is a powerful component. Still the relationship between these two different categories of human activity as interesting and fascinating. In this paper, a general comparison of these two disciplines is introduced. Then the possibility of mechanical creation of art using computers and artificial intelligence is discussed. This is followed by two techniques which are used to create poetry and music. First a statistical approach for mechanical composition of music is presented. This method uses “parameters” of existing music to create “similar” music. Second, a method of mechanical composition of poetry is presented which combines linguistic dictionary and semantic information