Artifical intelligence and creativity: imagining the unimaginable

How artificial intelligence can be used creatively is an often asked, and perpetually unsolved, question.
Of course, the term “AI” itself can be somewhat misleading; serving, as it does, as a catch-all phrase for anything involving machine learning and/or algorithms.
What is possible, however, is to explore in general terms what levels of creativity we can currently see from the people and technology working in this space.
Beginning with the most publicised stories, we have IBM&rsquo