"Poincaré's famous lectures before the Société de Psychologie in Paris (published as Science and Hypothesis, The Value of Science, and Science and Method) were cited by Jacques Hadamard as the source for the idea that creativity and invention consist of two mental stages, first random combinations of possible solutions to a problem, followed by a critical evaluation."
Now compare this to how computers today generate creative content.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_adversarial_network
"The generative network generates candidates while the discriminative network evaluates them."