Creativity and AI

AI can now generate images, music, videos, stories, designs, code and many other things.

But does generating something mean that the system is actually creative?

Maybe creativity is simply the ability to produce something new. Or maybe creativity also requires intention, experience, emotions, personal memories and understanding.

When a human creates a painting, there is normally a reason behind it. There is a person with experiences and emotions deciding what they want to express.

When an AI generates an image, it is producing an output based on patterns it learned from its training data.

So who is actually being creative?

Maybe AI is creating.

Maybe the person using the AI is creating.

Maybe it is a combination of both.

Or maybe we need to rethink what we mean by creativity in the first place.