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Ask HN: Is it possible that ChatGPT is not creative at all

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Re: Ask HN: Is it possible that ChatGPT is not creative at all

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Post by RetroTechie »

If everything in the training data is black or white, and ChatGPT is producing shades of gray, I'd call painting blue creative.

Sure it may output never-seen-before shades of gray, b/w polka dots & interesting dithering patterns. Does it paint yellow, purple, IR or UV, blow glass art, sculpture clay or spray graffiti on concrete? Doubtful.

Re: Ask HN: Is it possible that ChatGPT is not creative at all

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Post by larryfreeman »

ajuc wrote: post #10

Does it matter to you how you got there, or do you only care about the result? If the former - chatGPT is not creative (but maybe we aren't either) - if the latter - ChatGPT is (but so can be a very simple dumb code if it runs for long enough). I could write a program that will generate all possible programs of given size one by one and run that program till the internal memory state starts repeating. I start with pr…

I think that we need a better definition of creativity. I suspect that ChatGPT is merely derivative (like a person who reviews all the ideas out there and attempt to pick the best ones) as opposed to original (breaking the conventions typically by a person with a unique viewpoint). This begs the question of what is the definition of creativity and how can we be sure that human creativity is not also derivative. I am scratching my head on this one. How can we define creativity so that it clear that human beings can be original without being derivative?
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