So AI can learn to play the games, but can it learn to create them? That is, can it create compelling cultural novelty?
The most successful examples I've heard are computer generated classical music, but generating abstract art like classical music is simpler than generating art that relies on coherent language and narrative, like opera, or the blues, or a good novel.
There has been research on it. I forgot the source and can’t find it easily, but if you email Julian Togelius, he might know. He doesn’t focus on game AI research and is the only name I can remember at the moment.
Edit: oh, Togelius also seemed to have researched it.
The most successful examples I've heard are computer generated classical music, but generating abstract art like classical music is simpler than generating art that relies on coherent language and narrative, like opera, or the blues, or a good novel.