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Dartmouth College Contests Ask: Can Software Make Art?

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by Ken Picard Dartmouth College has issued a call to artists, but it's as likely to appeal to mathematicians, software developers and artificial-intelligence researchers as it is to poets and musicians. The ideal entrants may need strengths in both the former and latter categories. Dartmouth's William H. Neukom Institute for Computational Science has announced three competitions for the creators of computer software that aim to generate sonnets, short stories or dance-music mixes indistinguishable from those created by humans. The first annual Neukom Institute Prizes in Computational Arts are based on the "Turing test," the classic assessment of a machine's capacity to exhibit behavior equivalent to, or indistinguishable from, that of humans.…

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