AI stifles creativity

I would love to see the results of this poll if it was asked again today!

I respectfully disagree. AI’s influence extends beyond individual intent. It's like a "choose your own adventure," serving as a collaborative thought partner that aids in the ongoing creative process.

It will open and expand our horizon. Just like tools elevated human strength, AI will elevate human intelligence...

🤔 Here is something to think about:

Contrary to doubts on AI's creativity, LLM (Large Language Models) such as GPT4 surpassed people (students) in generating abundant, cost-effective, and superior ideas during an innovation class.

Remarkably, ChatGPT contributed most of the top ideas, overshadowing the students.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4526071

I believe the impact of AI on creativity significantly depends o the person using it and what they are trying to accomplish. I also think it's important to always question the results it returns. 

That being said, from my personal experience, AI has proven to be quite helpful, but I've used it in very specific ways.

For instance, my team is a highly innovative team that uses a combination of brainstorming and other methods to come up with unique ways to solve problems. Early on in our process recently we had a creative solution idea formed, and began researching code libraries. Like we always do we started our research with conventional Google searches, hoping to find existing libraries that we could leverage. After spending some time, we found a few options, but nothing quite hit the mark. Consequently, I was leaning towards the idea of designing our own libraries.

That is when I turned to GPT/Bard. I asked it to find me all libraries that could do this specific task. It mostly returned what we had already known from Google, but had this one more obscure library added in. After looking through it's codebase we realized a lot of it we could leverage for our purposes. Essentially, the creative part we already went through and what the application would eventually be was set, we just used AI to optimize how we implemented that creative vision. 

Personally I think that is where the true power of AI resides - not in the creative process but in the enhancement of implementing the formed idea.

I'm eager to learn more from those who expressed their agreement and would love to hear any fact-based examples they might have to share. There seems to be a prevailing sense of apprehension about potential outcomes, but as someone currently involved in developing an AI legal tech product, I instead see the boundless opportunities ahead.