[Crowbob]

Great discussion, thank you Z.

What you are describing are the limitations we currently face. However, I am reminded that not long ago it was pretty much definitive that no machine could produce beautiful and novel art. Say, for discussion, a painting that satisfies our current notions of esthetics, even as individual and subjective as esthetics are.

Today, a drone could easily and remotely take a photo of a landscape, a woman or even a chair. Connect that image up to a printer and voyla an esthetically pleasing, novel image is created. Were one to show that image to someone from a century ago that person quite likely would not be able to comprehend that that beautiful, novel image was not produced by the hand of a human being.

Just as today, you ask how a robot could 'learn' to sit on a ledge or reassemble a chair from pieces. My friend from the past would ask very similar questions about the painting.