[HN Gopher] Current AI models are more creative than humans on d...
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       Current AI models are more creative than humans on divergent
       thinking tasks
        
       Author : amichail
       Score  : 10 points
       Date   : 2024-05-14 20:41 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
        
       | nicklecompte wrote:
       | This research strikes me as hot garbage :/ In particular there
       | are dozens of studies like this, which compare to AI with
       | "humans" without adequately addressing sample bias:
       | Human participants (N = 151) were recruited via Prolific online
       | data collection platform in exchange for monetary compensation of
       | $8.00. Participants were limited to having a reported approval
       | rating above 97%, were proficient English speakers, and were
       | born/resided in the USA. Average total response time for
       | completing the survey was 34.66 minutes.
       | 
       | Asking a bunch of random people to fill out tedious "creative"
       | writing prompts for $15/hr is not a good way to measure humans.
       | Baffling that the discussion didn't even mention this. But you
       | see this all the time in AI research, and I am sure this headline
       | will be repeated uncritically by many people.
        
         | Nasrudith wrote:
         | It is still technically human creativity but for a narrow
         | subset of humanity engaged in Mechanical Turking. Suggesting
         | that it has surpassed the infamous "fake-AI" of substituting
         | for a lack of true automation using outsourced cheap labor.
         | 
         | Sort of like how the infamous "alpha-wolf" dynamics were from
         | wolves following prison rules. Technically accurate but only
         | for the "prison rules" scenario wolves and not general wild
         | wolf behavior.
         | 
         | I personally would call it a bit better than hot garbage but
         | still not generally applicable.
        
       | jrussino wrote:
       | In other news: current random number generators are more creative
       | than humans on number-picking tasks! [0]
       | 
       | [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40359736
        
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