It’s unfortunate that the computer scientists figured out how to make something that kinda looks like intelligence before the psychologists could actually figure out what intelligence is, but here we are. There’s no putting the cat back in the bag now.
surprise may be a better proxy for creativity than quality. A polished output is not necessarily creative, but a surprising one might be. Yet even surprise is not enough if it is merely random. Peak creativity seems to require a rarer combination: novelty that has intention.
This is why the real disagreement about AI and creativity is often not... See more