The findings indicate that AI chatbots can now generate creative ideas at least as well as the average human. However, the study only considered performance in one task associated with creativity assessment. The authors suggest that future research could explore how AI can be integrated into the creative process to improve human performance.
Key takeaways:
- Large language model AI chatbots may be able to outperform the average human in creative thinking tasks, such as devising alternative uses for everyday objects, according to a study published in Scientific Reports.
- The study compared the responses of 256 human participants with those of three AI chatbots to Alternate Uses Tasks for four objects, and found that chatbot-generated responses scored higher on average for both semantic distance and creativity.
- However, the human participants with the highest scores still outperformed the best chatbot responses, suggesting that the best humans still outperform artificial intelligence in creative divergent thinking tasks.
- The authors propose that future research could explore how AI can be integrated into the creative process to improve human performance.