Will AI help us be more creative?

If you read the previous two Sciencebase articles, you will note that the first one about our New Year trip to Norfolk was a conventional article in my usual style, descriptive, with a few puns and pops, and a load of bird photos. The next article was a reboot of that same article where I fed each paragraph from the former to an AI tool known as ChatGPT and provided its responses.
They were almost insightful, the AI responded in a positive way to my paragraphs basically rewriting them as a response in a way a chatshow host might reiterate and re-emphasise the points made by a guest on the show. It also seemed to extrapolate and extend on open-ended points I made in my original article to make suggestions. For example, I’d used the phrase “for starters” to allude to their being a main course when it came to our birdwatching over the three days. I think the AI picked up in this and while mentioning some birds then asked whether I’d seen any more.
Anyway, I started a fresh chat with the AI bot after writing up that latter call-and-response article and asked it the following question:
“I am wondering how important AI will be in the near future will it boost our collective creativity or stifle innovation?”
It came back with this response, which sums things up in a positive and succinct way, I must admit:
“AI has the potential to enhance and augment human creativity and innovation in many ways. For example, AI can help people generate new i...

Source: David Bradley Sciencebase - Songs, Snaps, Science - January 4, 2023 Category: Science Authors: David Bradley Tags: Artificial Intelligence Source Type: blogs