AI Excels in Creative Skills Test, Setting New Performance Benchmark 🎨

AI Receives Top Marks , in General Test , of Creative Abilities.<br />PsyPost reports that the use of artificial intelligence <br />for creative endeavors continues to expand <br />with AI tools winning awards for their creations. .<br />The outlet called on researchers to administer <br />the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, or TTCT, <br />and assess AI's current creative abilities. .<br />The outlet called on researchers to administer <br />the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, or TTCT, <br />and assess AI's current creative abilities. .<br />The test is used to assess the general <br />creative abilities of individuals, often <br />known as someone's personal creativity. .<br />The AI's results were evaluated by the Scholastic Testing <br />Service, which did not know in advance that some of the <br />tests it would be scoring were completed by an AI. .<br />According to PsyPost's results, GPT-4 scored in the top 1% <br />of test-takers for originality, which may be the first time <br />that AI has met or exceeded human ability for creativity.<br />In 1956, the Dartmouth Summer Research Project <br />on Artificial Intelligence proposed <br />its desire for AI to simulate , "every aspect of learning any <br />other feature of intelligence.".<br />In that 1956 proposal, computer scientist Nathaniel Rochester <br />posed a question which stood at the center of his motivation: , “How can I make a machine which will <br />exhibit originality in its solution of problems?”.<br />PsyPost points out that AI's founders suggested <br />that creativity was among the types of human <br />intelligence that machines could successfully emulate. .<br />Some critics remain skeptical <br />of the term "creativity" being applied <br />to nonhuman entities like AI.<br />Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden argues <br />that the term "creativity" being applied to AI is <br />a philosophical question rather than a scientific one.<br />Cognitive scientist Margaret Boden argues <br />that the term "creativity" being applied to AI is <br />a philosophical question rather than a scientific one