Explaining Artificial Intelligence Generation and Creativity: Human interpretability for novel ideas and artifacts

Abstract

Creativity is often thought of as the pinnacle of human achievement, but artificial intelligence (AI) is now starting to play a central role in creative processes, whether autonomously or in collaboration with people. Widespread deployment is now pushing for explanations on how creative AI is working, whether to engender trust, enable action, provide a basis for evaluation, or for intrinsic reasons. In this article, we review various motivations, algorithms, and methods for explaining either the workings of generative/creative AI algorithms or the generative/creative artifacts they produce.