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Will AI ever reach Human unique gift of creativity?

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Jean Laval Chue Him Director| Stella Aurorae Accountants Pty Ltd Sydney, Nsw, Australia
Humans have a unique gift of CREATIVITY. AI can only regurgitate what's in its databases, obtained through scraping the internet or fed texts books and other materials. But CREATIVITY will only be done by humans. However AI can help in troubleshooting issues.
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Kiron Bondale Retired | Mentor| Retired Welland, Ontario, Canada
That's Gen AI today, Jean. But if you believe AI will eventually evolve to achieve singularity, then creativity should be possible.

I'd also assert that a large part of an individual's creativity is inspired/based on what others have done. Very few folks can claim to be creative entirely out of the ether - we are the sum of our experiences, which is effectively what AI does.

Kiron
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1 reply by Jean Laval Chue Him
Oct 06, 2024 8:09 PM
Jean Laval Chue Him
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yes, Kiron we build on the shoulders of giants before us
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Jose Dominique PENDA Incident - Project Manager| Orange Cameroun
AI will never reach the human unique gift of creativity.

And here’s why:

AI can mimic patterns, but it can't truly innovate.

Many believe AI will surpass human creativity:

↳ Producing art that rivals human artists.
↳ Writing stories that touch our souls.
↳ Composing music that moves us deeply.

But it's all untrue.

Moreover, AI lacks the human touch.
Here are 7 reasons why ↓

1) Lack of Emotional Depth
2) Absence of Personal Experience
3) No True Understanding of Context
4) Inability to Break Rules Creatively
5) Limited by Data Inputs
6) No Genuine Inspiration
7) Can't Experience Serendipity

AI can assist creativity,
but it can't replace the human spark.
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George Freeman Thought Leader | Author | Architect| Florida, United States
AI outputs are and will increasingly mimic human intelligence, making the line of demarcation that would signify the proclamation of a singularity ambiguous, especially under a “Turing-like test,” that portrays the line is crossed once a human is unable to recognize their intellectual conversational engagement was with an AI.

Consider the following characteristics:

[1] Abstraction and logic
[2] Learning, reasoning, and planning
]3] Creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving
[4] Understanding, self-awareness, and consciousness
[5] Emotional knowledge, sensations, and feelings (i.e., sentience)


The mimicry of these qualities, especially when targeted, is within reach.

So, how could we ever trust any proclamation of intelligence obtained through an AI when utter transparency will inevitably be absent?

The unfortunate future is one where AI narratives take on political overtones, and at that point, the only truth that will matter is that which aligns with one’s worldview of a utopian or dystopian AI future.

George
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1 reply by Jean Laval Chue Him
Oct 06, 2024 8:56 PM
Jean Laval Chue Him
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Great to hear diverging opinions to mine George
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Jean Laval Chue Him Director| Stella Aurorae Accountants Pty Ltd Sydney, Nsw, Australia
Oct 06, 2024 11:56 AM
Replying to Kiron Bondale
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That's Gen AI today, Jean. But if you believe AI will eventually evolve to achieve singularity, then creativity should be possible.

I'd also assert that a large part of an individual's creativity is inspired/based on what others have done. Very few folks can claim to be creative entirely out of the ether - we are the sum of our experiences, which is effectively what AI does.

Kiron
yes, Kiron we build on the shoulders of giants before us
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Jean Laval Chue Him Director| Stella Aurorae Accountants Pty Ltd Sydney, Nsw, Australia
Oct 06, 2024 7:21 PM
Replying to George Freeman
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AI outputs are and will increasingly mimic human intelligence, making the line of demarcation that would signify the proclamation of a singularity ambiguous, especially under a “Turing-like test,” that portrays the line is crossed once a human is unable to recognize their intellectual conversational engagement was with an AI.

Consider the following characteristics:

[1] Abstraction and logic
[2] Learning, reasoning, and planning
]3] Creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving
[4] Understanding, self-awareness, and consciousness
[5] Emotional knowledge, sensations, and feelings (i.e., sentience)


The mimicry of these qualities, especially when targeted, is within reach.

So, how could we ever trust any proclamation of intelligence obtained through an AI when utter transparency will inevitably be absent?

The unfortunate future is one where AI narratives take on political overtones, and at that point, the only truth that will matter is that which aligns with one’s worldview of a utopian or dystopian AI future.

George
Great to hear diverging opinions to mine George
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Thomas Walenta Global Project Economy Expert Hackenheim, Germany
I don't think creativity is a human-only capability or even a conscious activity. We have many examples of inventions that came out of the blue (Newton's apple, Archimedes' Heureka). Animals are creative too, using tools and solving problems. Once we find out how creativity works (and we already know something about this), we can design AI to copy it.
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Jean Laval Chue Him Director| Stella Aurorae Accountants Pty Ltd Sydney, Nsw, Australia
so the researchers who have recently received the Nobel prizes are said to have used AI. So why could AI itself not get the Nobel? I believe it is because Creativity is the ability of humans, while AI is good at providing information and trouble-shooting information from vast databases, gained from previous giants in the field.
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Pavan Maddi
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Buona Vista, Singapore
Comparing 90’s vs today’s generation, I would say anything possible in coming days.. Great insight on human creativity vs AI! AI may surprise us and unlock new possibilities.
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Jean Laval Chue Him Director| Stella Aurorae Accountants Pty Ltd Sydney, Nsw, Australia
Hi Pavan, back in the late 1980's early 1990s we were working on AI systems at uni. We were trying to build what we called then 'expert systems'. but we found out we could not replace the real experts for example medical doctors, that is real doctors, not the doctors that simply act as coin machines where you input your symptoms and it triggers a presciption for a medication. We finally coined our systems 'Decision Support Systems.'Nowadays what has changed is the computing power which means AI like LLMs and Deep Learning  are possible. But still computers cannot have the creativity gift of humans. And we still need someone to be accountable for decisions taken. Except that war machine do not have to be accountable if the generals decide their machine will kill on factors x, yz and not consider other human values.
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Bisharah Saeed Project Manager| Computacenter
This is quite an interesting thought. In my opinion, I really don't know what the future holds. With LLM models becoming more efficient day by day, I think AI has a lot more to offer. However, it brings us to another question: Let's say AI gets creative in future, but as human beings, are we comfortable relying on those solutions generate by AI? This would depend on the context and situation of course but when it comes from a human, we tend to trust it more. That's an interesting thought to have in the future as well.

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