AI and Creativity
AI and Creativity
How creative is AI?
Ethan Mollick summarizes the research showing that AI is more creative than humans (though not as good as the most creative people). He recommends prompts that constrain the AI (e.g. limit the number of answers, require it to focus on a particular problem-solving style).
Using ChatGPT for Historical Simulations
The fact that LLMs hallucinate can be used to advantage in many contexts, such as education, where often people learn better by simulating a variety of situations.
Benjamin Breen offers The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines with many examples including links to sessions you can do with ChatGPT.
For example, The Fall of the Ming Dynasty is a history simulation for ChatGPT, where you are given a realistic description of a specific setting and asked to react. Your response leads to the next setting, and so on.
38 AI experts and 39 English experts were asked to rate and guess whether poems were written by an AI or a human. The human came in 1st place, while Bard, ChatGPT-4, and Claude came in 2nd, 3rd, and 4th places respectively, both in writing quality and their ability to fool respondents into believing their poems were authored by a human. English experts were far better at discerning which poems were written by AI, which points to a need for them to play a greater role in helping shape future versions of AI technology.
In February 2023, The Atlantic and The Washington Post examined AI poetry, concluding that AI poems were clichéd, predictable, and full of awkward rhymes.