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AI and Creative Thinking

Up until now, I was of the firm belief that AI wont be able to beat human creativity soon (or never). But seeing results of AI based Chatgpt scores in TTCT makes me rethink. 

The Torrance test measures, in its own words, fluency, flexibility, originality and elaboration. 

Fluency stands for number of relevant responses.

Flexibility is number of categories of shifts or ideas. 

Originality is number of unusual ideas determined by statistical infrequency

Elaboration is ideas beyond the usual necessary for the responses

Yes, on the face of it, seems like a brute force AI will work well. Plus we may be tempted to question the test itself which was developed in the 50s. 

But to me this is a first breach in the wall that is humans versus artificial intel in a manner of speaking. \

PS: I still feel an AI is no match for a creative human, but who knows

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