Summary: Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically GPT-4, was found to match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard creativity test. The AI application ChatGPT, developed using GPT-4, excelled in fluency and originality in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, a widely recognized tool for assessing creativity.
This breakthrough finding indicates that AI may be developing creative ability on par with or even surpassing human capabilities. Dr. Erik Guzik, the lead researcher, anticipates that AI, with its rapidly evolving advancements, will become a key tool for business innovation and entrepreneurship.
Key Facts:
- The study showed that ChatGPT performed in the top 1% for originality, a new achievement for AI.
- AI outperformed the majority of college students in the national creativity test.
- Despite ChatGPT’s success, it suggested the need for more sophisticated tools to differentiate between human and AI-generated ideas.
Source: University of Montana
I suggest the tests themselves are lacking.
Given that “AI” is basically software that learns by example, it is fundamentally incapable of any true creativity - at least in its current form.
Humans, whether you want to acknowledge it or not, are also led by example. No act of artistic creation has ever been entirely original or without precedent.
Humans also learn by example.
I could come up with something new and "creative", like have you ever heard of a Sxygun Gepyas?
But with zero context and reference to things you already know it's meaningless. So at least part of creative ideas must base on existing things, otherwise the most creative ideas would come from a random generator.
An artificial neural network (such as the AI in question) is grounded in the same abstract mathematics that run our brains, sans all the erratic behaviour caused by hormones and the slow ion channels that cap our thinking speed.
The only thing we’re capable of, that an ANN can’t do yet, is spontaneity; and I’m pretty sure that this will be addressed in the future. That’s if you even consider a spontaneous AI to be a good thing, which most AI researchers don’t. Perhaps this lack of spontaneous behaviour (and consequently curiosity) is the reason AIs are still predictable/controllable.
That's a misunderstanding of both what creativity is and what gpt4 is doing.