Collaborative creativity with Monte-Carlo Tree Search and Convolutional
  Neural Networks
  We investigate a human-machine collaborative drawing environment in which an
autonomous agent sketches images while optionally allowing a user to directly
influence the agent's trajectory. We combine Monte Carlo Tree Search with image
classifiers and test both shallow models (e.g. multinomial logistic regression)
and deep Convolutional Neural Networks (e.g. LeNet, Inception v3). We found
that using the shallow model, the agent produces a limited variety of images,
which are noticably recogonisable by humans. However, using the deeper models,
the agent produces a more diverse range of images, and while the agent remains
very confident (99.99%) in having achieved its objective, to humans they mostly
resemble unrecognisable 'random' noise. We relate this to recent research which
also discovered that 'deep neural networks are easily fooled' \cite{Nguyen2015}
and we discuss possible solutions and future directions for the research.
