Creativity & Artificial Intelligence

Introduction

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the ability to allow people to experience, create and interact with intelligent artificial and simulated realities. These rapidly evolving capabilities are changing the landscpe of creativity, expanding beyond the realms of exisiting laws and professional standards.

An early form of artificial intelligence is machine learning, which can be used for intelligent data classification. By training a machine learning platform on the meaning of existing data, the platform can deduce its own rules and draw conclusions on future platforms. The classic example is to categorize iris varities by a few limited characteristics of iris flowers.An example of an AI platform is the Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis (Weka), a collection of machine learning and data analysis software developed at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

More recent advances in artificial intelligence have been used to develop a plethora of creative tool. OpenAI's ChatGPT and Adobe's Firefly are examples of tools that can be used for the authorship of informative articles and images. However, these new tools reaise many isses.

For example, is artificial intelligence (AI) really being creative? The begs the questions what is creativity and what is intelligence?

There are also intellectual property questiosn involving copyrights, trademarks and even patents. For example, can work product from AI be patented or copyrighted? So far, the answer seems to be no, but legislation and court cases may change this in the near future.