ChatGPT v4 matches top 1% of humans on creativity tests
Another blow to human superiority?
ChatGPT 4 can already pass the Bar Exam, now it appears to be more creative than humans too. Is this a blow to arguments that computers can’t replace artists?
A University of Montana study used ChatGPT 4 take the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking, a well-known tool used for decades to assess human creativity. They then submitted the AI’s test answers along with the test taken by 24 UM students taking Dr. Erik Guzik’s entrepreneurship and personal finance classes.
These scores were then compared with 2,700 college students nationally who took the TTCT in 2016. All submissions were scored by Scholastic Testing Service, which didn’t know one of the submissions was done by ChatGPT.
The result? The AI’s test answers placed in the top percentile for fluency – the ability to generate a large volume of ideas – and for originality – the ability to come up with new ideas. The AI slipped a bit – to the 97th percentile – for flexibility, the ability to generate different types and categories of ideas.
“For ChatGPT and GPT-4, we showed for the first time that it performs in the top 1% for originality,” Guzik said. “That was new.”
Links: