My favorite aha moment here, among many, is this one: “What I think is the most insightful and counterintuitive insight from this whole investigation is that I’m also not sure many humans meet this (creativity) requirement either...”
Love that!
My day job is working with Silicon Valley / MIT companies building tools for data science and AI. Yet my position is that we need fewer data scientists and more data humanists: https://techno-sapien.com/blog/humanists
In other words, AI only makes true creativity more valuable and necessary.
No, I don't think AI can be creative. That's like asking if a car or a toaster can be creative. Even using your definition of creativity (which I reserve my judgement on), no AI image generator can be creative because by design they work within an established parameter. And I know what I'm talking about because I do make use AI generated images (just check out my NightCafe account, lol). People have a tendency to romanticize or demonize this thing while I personally found it frustrating to work with (ha!).
Poetry is my go-to example of why AI definitely lacks creativity. This sonnet, for example, is written in a mechanical way with a forced rhythm, and is full of trite phrases and cliches yet does not contain a single real insight. There is also no actual poesy, no way in which lines or words play off of one another to layer meaning. In fact, this is the only way an AI has ever written a poem.
I do agree with that. What's interesting is it was an idea spawned by a friend and I just asked it to write one. This is the first pass. Is it good? Not really. Can many humans do any better? Most have never even heard of a sonnet. 🤣
My favorite aha moment here, among many, is this one: “What I think is the most insightful and counterintuitive insight from this whole investigation is that I’m also not sure many humans meet this (creativity) requirement either...”
Love that!
My day job is working with Silicon Valley / MIT companies building tools for data science and AI. Yet my position is that we need fewer data scientists and more data humanists: https://techno-sapien.com/blog/humanists
In other words, AI only makes true creativity more valuable and necessary.
Great post.
Totally agree on this. You may also then enjoy this essay on "What Data Science Forgot"
https://polymathicbeing.substack.com/p/what-data-science-forgot
No, I don't think AI can be creative. That's like asking if a car or a toaster can be creative. Even using your definition of creativity (which I reserve my judgement on), no AI image generator can be creative because by design they work within an established parameter. And I know what I'm talking about because I do make use AI generated images (just check out my NightCafe account, lol). People have a tendency to romanticize or demonize this thing while I personally found it frustrating to work with (ha!).
Good thoughts. You came to the same conclusion I did.
Poetry is my go-to example of why AI definitely lacks creativity. This sonnet, for example, is written in a mechanical way with a forced rhythm, and is full of trite phrases and cliches yet does not contain a single real insight. There is also no actual poesy, no way in which lines or words play off of one another to layer meaning. In fact, this is the only way an AI has ever written a poem.
I do agree with that. What's interesting is it was an idea spawned by a friend and I just asked it to write one. This is the first pass. Is it good? Not really. Can many humans do any better? Most have never even heard of a sonnet. 🤣