Ethan Mollick (@emollick) posted at 5:33 PM on Mon, Sep 23, 2024:Comparing the creativity of a representative human sample to GPT-4 finds "the creative ideas produced by AI chatbots are rated more creative than those created by humans... Augmenting humans with AI improves human creativity, albeit not as much as ideas created by ChatGPT alone." https://t.co/ISCj6QKSxw(https://x.com/emollick/status/1838240203007205379?t=XWI1JUoHKlmTnrCGWWiMCA&s=03)

Ethan Mollick (@emollick) posted at 10:07 AM on Mon, Sep 09, 2024:We have increasing evidence that today's AIs can, indeed, generate novel ideasThis paper shows that the AI generates research ideas that are more novel and exciting (to other researchers!) than experts in the field, with no significant difference in the idea's feasibility.(https://x.com/emollick/status/1833190390964359321?t=jqookDxXMQCyqYMscFK5Aw&s=03)

Ethan Mollick (@emollick) posted at 5:05 AM on Thu, Sep 12, 2024:I don’t necessarily agree with it, but this is an interesting theoretical paper that lays out the argument that LLMs are limited in their ability to invent based on differences between human and AI cognition that includes a discussion of sources of novelty https://t.co/T7U4G4Aye0 https://t.co/iqOURCHRwI(https://x.com/emollick/status/1834201561867698210?t=KxOAMlj5DzdnqdbKlEPGLw&s=03)

[Zvi] Colin Fraser offers skeptical review of the recent paper about LLMs generating novel research ideas.

[https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/sakana-strawberry-and-scary-ai also touches on this]

From https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-81-alpha-proteo:

Alex Tabarrok cites the latest paper on AI ‘creativity,’ saying obviously LLMs are creative reasoners, unless we ‘rule it out by definition.’ Ethan Mollick has often said similar things. It comes down to whether to use a profoundly ‘uncreative’ definition of creativity, where LLMs shine in what amounts largely to trying new combinations of things and vibing, or to No True Scotsman that and claim ‘real’ creativity is something else beyond that.

Review this section of https://dynomight.substack.com/p/automated

The AI seems to run towards the darkness without a clear plan for turning towards the light. It usually resorted to (a) incredibly lame/cringey ideas, (b) making stuff up, or (c) just staying dark and not even attempting to be positive.

Ethan Mollick (@emollick) posted at 9:31 AM on Tue, Oct 15, 2024:A nice demonstration about why world models will not be enough for AI to replace the artistry of top creators in the near future.(https://x.com/emollick/status/1846227413832765819?t=DU4wKha8vDElYEJiLBaAtw&s=03)

https://x.com/natolambert/status/1848352562161848445?t=yhKma5KRFfIhlBh6sZ_kxQ&s=03