Artificial creativity

My first line ever on an AI-assisted tool happens to be a question.  ‘In what way you are different from a human’s creativity?’ I ask.

ChatGPT is very honest, I must say. It replies:

‘As an AI language model, my ability to create and generate content is based on statistical patterns and algorithms derived from vast amounts of text data. While I can generate language that appears to be creative and original, my output is ultimately limited by the data I was trained on and the rules programmed into my algorithms.

In contrast, human creativity is often driven by personal experiences, emotions, and the ability to think outside the box. Human creators can draw inspiration from a wide range of sources, including their own imaginations, personal perspectives, and interactions with the world around them. They can also intentionally break the rules and patterns of traditional language to create something truly unique and original.

While I can generate content quickly and accurately, I do not have the same level of intuition, emotions, or personal experiences that drive human creativity. In this sense, my creative abilities are fundamentally different from those of a human being.’

I, yours truly, find it more honest than most of we humans. But it can be misleading, brutal, inhuman in the ways we can’t imagine. Perfect lack of subjectivity has the potential to take it to the threshold of limitless objectivity, which in turn may undo what we have created so far, or change the meaning of all the elements of human civilization as we know it. Of all our inventions so far, this one has the potential to turn the tables against the humans, as it introduces a mechanical replacement for spontaneous emotions, open-ended volition, fluctuating feelings, teasing mysteries, ever-chiding curiosity and numerous other checks and balances that keep the destructive monster in us under check, somehow. 

Now we want to hand over even our thinking to the mechanized tools. And get busy in creating solutions for problems born of our brain-substitute. AI-generated mail drafts, chatting messages, planning documents, summaries and reports are now spreading with a malignancy. It will standardize the way we act, think, behave, even feel: a mass-produced new-age mentality and emotionality. But then maybe it’s inevitable. It was fated to be. In our craze to surpass all life forms on earth, we were always expected to create something even above the mankind itself.  It’s not a doomsday portrait helplessly drawn by a poetic man. I would accept it as one more dimension in evolution.  Moreover, it seems a pretty communist concept, this AI: a mass standardization of ideas, thoughts and emotions.

PS: This isn’t tech-phobia. My only concern is that we get easily addicted to tools. So within a generation, we will be acting, planning, thinking and emoting the way algorithms want us. Then will we be the same humans, or some new avatar?