What is deemed computationally creative?

In this new era of computational creativity, where artificial intelligence (AI) systems are attempting to achieve human-level creativity, a set of golden questions needs to be answered, such as “What kind of systems are creative systems?” and “When does a system qualify as truly creative?” The existing generation of AI-driven cognitive systems is based on the goal of achieving human-level intelligence, not human-level creativity. Creativity is considered subjective with respect to both the application domains and the perceiving end-user. In this paper, we postulate the dimensions and factors that distinguish creativity and intelligence, such as novelty, value, surprise, influence, coherence, correctness, and comprehensibility. We group the application domains into time-dependent and time-independent ones and define a framework to describe these dimensions in each application. In addition to defining the factors that determine creativity, we also suggest ideas on how to evaluate these factors. We strongly believe that the proposed framework would act as the basis for building and evaluating creative systems and also provide us with the ultimate goal for achieving human-level creativity.