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I think that better philosophers than us debated this question for thousands or years but I'll give my take. Suppose that creativity means to find a particular
by pmontra 4y ago
I think that better philosophers than us debated this question for thousands or years but I'll give my take. Suppose that creativity means to find a particular place in the n-dimensional space of all possible ideas. Artists find some interesting places in that space in part because they started from other interesting places nearby. They know those nearby places and we don't, because we trained to do a different job. However we have our share of creativity.
Algorithms like GPT or Stable Diffusion explore that n-dimensional space starting from possibly more places than a single human has experienced. They will miss many of the starting points that any human experiences, because of limits of those algorithms' interfaces with the world. However they can still find interesting places. Maybe it's not creativity as we mean it, but they can show us interesting places that no artist has found before.