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Current AI models are more creative than humans on divergent thinking tasks

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14 pointsamichail6 comments

This research strikes me as hot garbage :/ In particular there are dozens of studies like this, which compare to AI with "humans" without adequately addressing sample bias:

  Human participants (N = 151) were recruited via Prolific online data collection platform in exchange for monetary compensation of $8.00. Participants were limited to having a reported approval rating above 97%, were proficient English speakers, and were born/resided in the USA. Average total response time for completing the survey was 34.66 minutes.

Asking a bunch of random people to fill out tedious "creative" writing prompts for $15/hr is not a good way to measure humans. Baffling that the discussion didn't even mention this. But you see this all the time in AI research, and I am sure this headline will be repeated uncritically by many people.

It is still technically human creativity but for a narrow subset of humanity engaged in Mechanical Turking. Suggesting that it has surpassed the infamous "fake-AI" of substituting for a lack of true automation using outsourced cheap labor.

Sort of like how the infamous "alpha-wolf" dynamics were from wolves following prison rules. Technically accurate but only for the "prison rules" scenario wolves and not general wild wolf behavior.

I personally would call it a bit better than hot garbage but still not generally applicable.

"Machines can appear more creative than humans when the Humanly are bored of the task and have no intrinsic motivation to do it well."

a recent white paper aimed at the business crowd solved a lot of technical nuance debate by simply declaring that "General Artificial Intelligence" is when an AI can do better than fifty percent of humans on the tasks that they define as important -- mostly white collar desk job contents -- more than fifty percent of the time (!). The boldness to make this declaration (in the footnotes IIR) and then wax on about GAI this and that is the future.. really makes it clear that some writers will say anything for money.

Two generations in on a mission to filter out divergent thinkers from all processes and institutions, resulting in an gigantic science and culture slowdown, AI finally gets there.

All it takes is one world war, to remove this prefiltered human brakepad casteculture and we could soar again. Desperation and lawlessness among states drive real innovation, nothing else.

In other news: current random number generators are more creative than humans on number-picking tasks! [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40359736

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