“Already, automated creativity is starting the enter the mainstream,” he points out, citing e-David, a robot created by computer scientists at the University of Konstanz in Germany, programmed to paint pictures while making its own decisions on brush strokes and shading. Then there’s Electric Sheep—a collaborative art project created by developer Scott Draves in which computers create abstract animations users then vote on to help the system “learn” what is good and influence the next stage of its evolution.