AN ASTONISHING CHANGE is occurring in the landscape of human creativity: there is now evidence that AI can help make us more innovative — if we use it properly.
The core irony of generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bing is that they were supposed to be all logic and no imagination. Instead, we get AIs that make up information, engage in (seemingly) emotional discussions and are intensely creative. And that last fact is one that makes many people deeply uncomfortable.
To be clear, there is no one definition of creativity, but researchers have developed a number of tests that are widely used to measure the ability of humans to come up with diverse and meaningful ideas. The fact that many of these tests were flawed wasn’t that big a deal until, suddenly, AIs were able to surpass all of them. But now, ChatGPT-4 beats 91 per cent of humans on a variation of the Alternative Uses Test for creativity, and exceeds 99 per cent of people on the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. We are running out of creativity tests that AIs cannot
