
What happens if you can construct a person on a computer? From all the little chemical reactions in every single cell to an entire physiological system, humans are very complicated creatures.

While researching AI and computational creativity for a paper I'm writing I realized the site for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology Digest was down, so my paper "Artificial Intelligence and Authorship Rights" was inaccessible. I'm posting the penultimate draft here until such a time as they have it back up and want this…
Artificial intelligence has had a rocky history. In 1956 Herb Simon, one of the discipline’s four founders, claimed “Within 20 years, computers will be able to do anything a man can do.” Yet many of the things we think of when we think of true artificial intelligence – such as understanding nuanced language, solving novel…