CMV: AI can be just as creative as humans
A common argument about AI is that it lacks the “human” element in regards to creativity. I think that is true in some cases, but I find that people often overextend that point into saying AI can not be creative to begin with.
For example, AI writing is often a dead giveaway. An example of this are patterns people can discern pretty easily. While I do think that criticism is fair, that says more about LLM’s as opposed to AI as a whole.
From my understanding, models like ChatGPT are heavily trained on text and books. Naturally, it seems to me that if you train a system mostly on text, then of course a lot of its output will reflect the weaknesses of text prediction. But us humans do not learn from text alone. So at this point, we are comparing apples to oranges. We of course learn from images, sound, emotion, etc. So if AI eventually learns from enough multimodal input in a way that starts to resemble human learning, I do not see why we should assume its upper bound on creativity would automatically be less real or less unique than ours. After all, isn't our creativity just a byproduct of the combination of our multimodal experiences?
As a thought experiment, imagine an AI that could observe and learn from every second of a person’s life. At what point does the claim of creativity vanish if the AI takes in every piece of data I do. I am not arguing that current AI is already fully there, but I think that we are in the early stages of AI where our models are simply not connected to enough real world data.