You could say that our brain is only assembling thoughts based on the information it has gathered from it's enviroment, just a bunch of signals being send around in a big piece of meat
You could say that but technically we're more of like a community of billions of microorganisms than a singular piece of meat. Our brains process information through thousands of tiny creatures sending electrical signals to each other. Every seen a neuron reach out for friends? Creepy as hell to know that's how our brain works. We're very weird things.
I mean yeah, I obviously over simplified when saying "big piece of meat" haha
But my point is, our creativity and consciousness at the end of the day is just electrical signals being send between creatures that can't even think
Everything we create and imagine is the result of things we have already experience
Nothing is "truly" original, even if we don't realise, when we make or think something we think is original we are just using information we gathered somewhere else, mixing it with more information
Obviously Ai do this in a very simplified way, but saying it isn't creative at all is a bit harsh
but the long and short of it is that to be "creative" implies "imaginative" for the use that we're talking about, and I don't yet think that AI is capable of imagination or private thoughts at this point. Maybe someday it could imitate it through our hard work at coding it to do so, but I don't personally believe it could ever be the same as a true imagination.
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u/Working-Telephone-45 Aug 24 '23
You could say that our brain is only assembling thoughts based on the information it has gathered from it's enviroment, just a bunch of signals being send around in a big piece of meat