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AI is not creative and our brains are quantum.
Our AI-driven future only serves to illustrate the paucity of the depth of knowledge and the algorithmic experience, that for all our mastery of deep learning, we cannot untangle the WHY or the HOW of creativity beyond a cheap, data-driven generative, generic and truly unoriginal construct.
TLDR: The brain seems to be a quantum construct as much as a physical and electro/chemical amalgamation so no amount of data will ever deliver binary creativity for machine learning.
The recent “explosion” in NLP and LLMs, the watershed of GPT-3 and the way it has been embraced by the world in such quick order has opened the floodgates on conversations that would normally have been the preserve of the debating room or the philosophy lecture hall of higher education namely, the nature of humanity and it’s capacity for creativity or capability to create.
As a theist, I hold to the belief that we are more than mere meat sacks, more than a random collection of chemicals, electrical impulses or viable biological data-processing units and, as we career headlong into an AI-driven future I (and others for whom normally this sort of thing would not have been of any interest) have been led to think more on the nature of the human brain and what could be the facilities that enable us as humans to be so…extraordinary.
