LLMs and creativity
This is not about how LLMs can churn out poetry or generative art and thus they are creative. Yes, they do these things are it can be considered creative. This is about how mankind will end up using LLMs for creativity going forward.
Surprisingly creativity as a word and skill came into discussions only in the last 70 odd years. We somehow always assumed that creativity was essential element to all of humankind. Google book trends shows that the word crops up only recently.
Why is creativity hard now?
There was an important paper published all the way back in 2005 titled "The Burden of Knowledge and the "Death of the Renaissance Man’: Is Innovation Getting Harder?" by Benjamin F. Jones. The central hypothesis is that knowledge is expanding in every subject area. For example, 200 years back, you could have someone who knew all of Physics. Today, Physics is divided into so many sub-fields and it would be impossible to find someone who has complete knowledge in any sub area - for example string theory. Same can be said for any area. Lets take banking - today, you can never find anyone who knows all of retail banking in any bank. I was talking to someone in our corporate contracts division and I realized that there 3x are more "services" offered by Capgemini than what I knew and I have been in IT service industry for 25+ years.
Because of this "burden of knowledge" we can clearly see 2 trends.
Another fallout is the decrease in disruption for patens and papers. This was observed more than 10 years ago in Nature article titled "Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time".
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Where does LLM come in here?
Because of the vast knowledge these LLMs possess, they are ideally suited for cross-pollination of ideas. They are capable of answering legal questions, at the same time answer medical questions. So they are perfectly capable of helping us lift an idea from one area to a completely different domain.
Often our creativity comes from other fields - X-Rays in security is a good example - use of an technology in a different area. LLMs should provide us and prompt us for the future of creativity - where they will help us take ideas from areas un-known to us and fit it into our context.
To me this is the next generation of creative thinking.
What do you think?
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Generative AI specialist. AI Futures and AI CoE head
1 年Daniela Rittmeier - I completely agree on the "combination of technologies and collaboration of diverse HUMAN competences". LLMs have ingested so much material that they can be the spark for this creativity if we know how to prompt them. That is my thinking. Thanks for the wonderful insight
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1 年?? Rajeswaran for sharing you point of connecting LLM & creativity. You know that you hit a nerve in me. As you know, I am an architect by my profession. Not a software architect, but a real architect. We know that there is a good reason why there is the comparable role in software development & originally real estate architects are successful for example in AI development in automotive & mobility. For architects, technologies like LLM, 5G or Quantum ML are the tools to shape the future. Creativity results from the combination of technologies & collaboration of diverse HUMAN competences. And the more complex & challenging the task, the more diverse the technologies & teams in the respective context & the more innovative & creative the solution will be. Do you agree? Sunny greetings from Munich from Daniela Attached a pic of our #AIblackbox creativity workshop. #Kudos to Daniel Kühlwein & the entire team