Could artifical intelligence create culture?

May 9, 2016

The DEKA Arm System is pictured in this Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) handout image released May 9, 2014. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the robotic arm for amputees that is named for the "Star Wars" character Luke Skywalker and can perform multiple, simultaneous movements, an advance over the metal hook currently in use. REUTERS/DARPA/Handout via Reuters

Algorithms can create music streams, and forumlaic 'literature' but could they ever create culture? Image: REUTERS/DARPA/Handout via Reuters

Daniel N. Rockmore

Professor, Dartmouth College

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