Summary: Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically GPT-4, was found to match the top 1% of human thinkers on a standard creativity test. The AI application ChatGPT, developed using GPT-4, excelled in fluency and originality in the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, a widely recognized tool for assessing creativity.
This breakthrough finding indicates that AI may be developing creative ability on par with or even surpassing human capabilities. Dr. Erik Guzik, the lead researcher, anticipates that AI, with its rapidly evolving advancements, will become a key tool for business innovation and entrepreneurship.
Key Facts:
- The study showed that ChatGPT performed in the top 1% for originality, a new achievement for AI.
- AI outperformed the majority of college students in the national creativity test.
- Despite ChatGPT’s success, it suggested the need for more sophisticated tools to differentiate between human and AI-generated ideas.
Source: University of Montana
if you ask machine to solve a test and will show it how other people solved it. It will solve it like other people. Absolutely the opposite of creative thinking.