Recommender systems are a respectable topic in machine learning. That is quite different from “try[ing] to craft a written work with elements known to appeal to people” (OP) or “the mathematization and rationalization of the criteria for what makes fiction good or bad” (GGP).
No, I’m not suggesting any particular limit on what an AI might do in creative domains. I do think a domain like writing or reviewing fiction is probably AI-hard, meaning that sub-AI approaches like statistical machine learning won’t be enough.
Recommender systems are a respectable topic in machine learning. That is quite different from “try[ing] to craft a written work with elements known to appeal to people” (OP) or “the mathematization and rationalization of the criteria for what makes fiction good or bad” (GGP).
No, I’m not suggesting any particular limit on what an AI might do in creative domains. I do think a domain like writing or reviewing fiction is probably AI-hard, meaning that sub-AI approaches like statistical machine learning won’t be enough.
I certainly agree with that, but the way to eat an elephant is; one mouthful at a time.