So this is interesting. On the one hand, I am very pessimistic, that we are anywhere close to achieving a human intelligence and cognition. I don’t think it possesses intuition or feelings, or any of the things that you might think are necessary for true creativity.

But … this might be a generation of AI that is actually better at creativity than it is at being factual and correct. Language generation has the ability to produce sentences that are plausible and coherent. But without some kind of additional subsystem it’s actually not very good at fact checking. So it’s possible that this tool will be a boost to human creativity by being able to generate tons of alternatives and variations on ideas, and and not a boost to human accuracy or precision like many previous generations of “Thinking Machines” have done.

GPT is less “calculator” and more “crazy friend who spits out inspiring nonsense”. It produces fanciful novel output — made of the things you put into it, rearranged. But it does so in such a powerful way, drawing on such a wealth of examples, that the output can actually feel creative. Usually it’s creative via an existing style, so it’s a derivative sort of creativity, if that’s not an oxymoron.

But anyway. I find it interesting that in terms of how this to boost human abilities, it’s more of a creativity boost.

Completely false. These models are able to generate new content and solve novel problems.