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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Intelligence, awareness, and esthetics
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Apr20.191345.27706@javelin.sim.es.com> <1992Apr20.194614.6814@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1992 15:00:23 GMT

>In article <1992Apr20.191345.27706@javelin.sim.es.com> biesel@javelin.sim.es.com (Heiner Biesel) writes:
>>This suggests an alternative to the Turing test: a computer can be
>>said to exhibit human intelligence and awareness if it is capable of
>>producing a work of art which finds both wide acceptance among art
>>lovers, and is indistinguishable from similar pieces or art produced
>>by human artists.
>
I believe there was a set of computer-produced "Mondrians" in the 1960s
that was indistinguishible from real Mondrians to many art critics. Then
again, using Mondrian makes it pretty easy for the robo-painter, doesn't
it.  I can't find a reference right now, but it's a topic that turns up
pretty regularly in philosophical aesthetics.


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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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