{"id":184049,"date":"2024-03-01T09:23:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/ai-outperforms-humans-in-standardized-tests-of-creative-potential"},"modified":"2024-03-01T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:23:34","slug":"ai-outperforms-humans-in-standardized-tests-of-creative-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/ai-outperforms-humans-in-standardized-tests-of-creative-potential","title":{"rendered":"AI outperforms humans in standardized tests of creative potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-outperforms-humans-in-standardized-tests-of-creative-potential2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative thought.<\/p>\n<p>Divergent thinking is characterized by the ability to generate a unique solution to a question that does not have one expected solution, such as \u201cWhat is the best way to avoid talking about politics with my parents?\u201d In the study, GPT-4 provided more original and elaborate answers than the human participants.<\/p>\n<p>The study, \u201cThe current state of <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/artificial+intelligence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">artificial intelligence<\/a> generative language models is more creative than humans on <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/divergent+thinking\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">divergent thinking<\/a> tasks,\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41598-024-53303-w\">published<\/a> in <i>Scientific Reports<\/i> and authored by U of A Ph.D. students in psychological science Kent F. Hubert and Kim N. Awa, as well as Darya L. Zabelina, an assistant professor of psychological science at the U of A and director of the Mechanisms of Creative Cognition and Attention Lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent study, 151 human participants were pitted against ChatGPT-4 in three tests designed to measure divergent thinking, which is considered to be an indicator of creative thought. Divergent thinking is characterized by the ability to generate a unique solution to a question that does not have one expected solution, such as \u201cWhat is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}