AI Outshines Humans in Creative Thinking - Neuroscience News

A recent paper by Jennifer Haase and Paul Hanel did just that, having humans blindly judge the creativity of AIs compared to humans in the AUT. After testing AI and 100 people on various objects, ranging from balls to pants, they found the GPT-4 model outperformed5 all but 9.4 percent of humans tested in generating creative ideas, as judged by othe

Of course, there are other creativity tests as well. A popular one is the remote associates test (RAT). This test asks people to find the common word that connects a set of three seemingly unrelated words. For example, pine, crab, and sauce are connected by the word apple. (Try one: What word connects cream, skate, and water? The AI got it right.)

As generative AI continues to evolve, its impact on the arts and creativity is only set to deepen. With each advancement, we're witnessing a redefinition of what it means to create and who gets to participate in the creative process.

When GPT-4 launched in March 2023, results were again impressive. As with its predecessors, you can ask GPT-4 to compose poetry in the style of Emily Dickinson and it obliges; ask it to pick up from a random snippet of The Lord of the Rings and you are suddenly reading a plausible imitation of Tolkien; request start-up business plans and the output

Generative AI combines the encoding of vast corpuses of text and images—which act as training data—and a series of machine learning algorithms to turn text prompts into incredibly creative, intelligent, and useful visual and text responses.