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Students reported some curious mental effects when using AI to generate ideas. SeventyFour via Getty Images

AI can help − and hurt − student creativity

A study in which students brainstormed all the uses of a paper clip shows that AI can both enhance and harm the creative process.
Creativity involves generating something new – a product or solution that didn’t previously exist. Maestria_diz/iStock via Getty Images

AI scores in the top percentile of creative thinking

Researchers had college students and AI take a standardized test in creative thinking, and all of them were scored by trained evaluators who didn’t know in advance that some had been completed by AI.
Obtaining a desired image can be a long exercise in trial and error. OpenAI

The folly of making art with text-to-image generative AI

Visual artists draw from visual references, not words, as they imagine their work. So when language is in the driver’s seat of making art, it erects a barrier between the artist and the canvas.
The ‘Portrait of Edmond de Bellamy’ was produced by a generative adversarial network that was fed a data set of 15,000 portraits spanning six centuries. Christies/Picril

AI can replicate human creativity in two key ways – but falls apart when asked to produce something truly new

AI is starting to make us doubt whether humans have a monopoly on creativity. Two scholars argue AI’s use scenarios may be endless but that they require another form of creativity: curation.
Penny for your thoughts? Randy Faris/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Want more good ideas from your workers? Try giving them a reward – and a choice

A recent study found that offering workers a choice of what type of reward they would like for offering good suggestions increased the volume of submissions and their creativity too.
Some critics have claimed that artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has “killed the essay,” while DALL-E, an AI image generator, has been portrayed as a threat to artistic integrity. (Shutterstock)

Generative AI like ChatGPT reveal deep-seated systemic issues beyond the tech industry

Rather than seeing artificial intelligence as the cause of new problems, we might better understand AI ethics as bringing attention to old ones.

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