Can a Machine Be Creative?

In this paper, the theme of machine creativity is dealt with. The main questions underlying this topic are shortly introduced, reporting and discussing the views of authors involved in Artificial Intelligence and mind psychology research.This paper results from an ongoing research on creativity in the digital era whose aim is to investigate the changes in the notion of creativity due to the digital transition.The main questions that emerged from the research on machine creativity concern machine autonomy and involved both technical and ethical problems. They are essentially related to machine control and interaction as well as solutions of full automation and machine’ liability.One can conclude that, in the past, Remington type-writers revolutionized the way people write. Today machine-content generators revolutionize the way to understand writing itself and, accordingly, the author’s creativity.