**3 November 2026**
Who wins the race in a car rally?
Is it the car? Or the driver? Or both?
Before we answer the question, we have to consider a few facts: What purpose does a car serve in a rally? What purpose does a car without a driver serve in a rally? What purpose does a driver serve in a race without his car?
Both serve a purpose in combination with each other.
But still, the human contribution—as the operating part, with its dynamic consciousness of the situation—is given predominance in deciding a winner.
Are cars declared winners?
No. The driver gets the trophy.
The same applies to other domains involving humans operating machines, gadgets, computers, or controlling animals—or anything, for that matter—in a competition setting, be it sports, politics, economics, arts, or anything around you.
After all, humans are laying down the rules of competition to have human champions. So that is inevitable.
Human-centrism is inevitable in competitive settings among individuals and institutions where Homo sapiens are the creators.
When mankind wrote on rock walls in caves, it still was the human scribe.
Later, pen and paper, word-processing tools in computers replaced typewriters and physical dictionaries. But still, the limelight was always hogged by the operator.
That is man.
I think the same would apply to music, painting, sculpting, writing, and any other creative domain, including even hardcore science, including mathematics.
Human brains will keep using the latest artificial tools in creating something fundamentally original.
Artificial intelligence is the inevitable evolution and advancement upon grammar and editing tools available in Word documents.
As creators, the restless human brain will think of newer and newer ways to build upon what is stored in algorithms, drawing from the already established collective pool of knowledge, information and facts.
To create something different, the operator has to be there with time, dedication and willpower to create something new.
As long as that intention is there, and there is no shortcut to quality, and the creator avoids mere quantitative addition to the cumulative source in the algorithms of large language models, the modern artist will always find ways and means to create something out of the artificial tools.
With this spontaneous creativity, the artist, with his focused attention and passion for creating something new, will always cross the boundaries which the large language models set for him.
That is how it is going to be, whether we accept it or not.
On-principle denial of artificial intelligence's role in modern creation would be as childish as a writer who prefers to write strictly with pen on paper, judging the one using an Apple notebook to write his articles and scribblings.
Both are basically driven by a sense of curiosity and creativity.
They are merely using different tools.
I think, as a creator, the person operating a modern tool has to always keep in mind his responsibility to keep trying to create something fundamentally different, intrinsically original in nature and scope.
As long as this creative honesty is there, and it keeps pushing him to go on and on without taking any shortcuts or settling for some pale imitation, directly or indirectly, of something already existing in the algorithms of large language models, the dharma of creation isn't tampered with.
You are still keeping the dharma of creativity as long as you have this genuine urge to create something new and are always aware of the fact that, however hard you might be required to try, or however long it takes for you to create something that meets your passion, you are keeping the dharma of creativity alive.
Artificial intelligence gives a fantastic scope for research, reorganisation, summarising and assembling the vast pool of data, knowledge and opinions.
There are so many quantitative processes involved within the qualitative endeavour of original creativity.
That can be handled by artificial intelligence while you keep focused on your work, like an ancient sculptor, musician, painter or writer, engrossed in his task.
The spirit of creativity remains the same, be it an ancient rock carver centuries back or somebody working with artificial intelligence tools.
The endeavour is the same, the pursuit is the same, and hopefully the results will also be the same.
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