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Jun 2017
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AI, Machine Learning and Human Creativit...

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Just as manufacturing automation cuts into human jobs, the prospect of creative artificial intelligence raises the specter of robot writers, robot artists and robot musicians who never sleep and always agree with their patron. But paranoia aside, where wi 
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