Fig. 1: Comparative illustrations of artistic expression across different ‘creators’.
From: Exploration of the creative processes in animals, robots, and AI: who holds the authorship?
This figure presents a diverse array of drawings originating from varied sources: A an adult chimpanzee, illustrating non-human animal creativity that challenges traditional notions of artistic authorship (drawing previously collected by Cédric Sueur in 2019 and extracted from Martinet et al. (2023) dataset, with the courtesy of Tetsuro Matsuzawa); B a 2-year-old human toddler, representing the nascent stages of human creativity and expression (drawing anonymously and previously collected by Marie Pelé in 2018 and extracted from Martinet et al. (2021) dataset); C an adult human professional artist (drawing anonymously and previously collected by Cédric Sueur in 2018 and extracted from Martinet et al. (2021) dataset); and D a visualisation generated by a simple random walk (Sueur, 2011) algorithm developed in NetLogo (Tissue and Wilensky, 2004), demonstrating how artificial intelligence can create patterns that mimic certain aspects of artistic creativity. Netlogo model available on Netlogo Community platform © Cédric Sueur.
