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Well, I wonder if there's any new science that didn't need to happen because I could have told them. Oh, here's one. Eric Dolan is writing for PsyPost, as he likes to do. There's a new study that finds that humans can still beat AI at one creative task, which is generating more original ideas.
Now, I'm a creative person by nature and I do it for a living. And I'm here to tell you I've tried to get ChatGPT to do my job for me. I've actually asked it, ChatGPT, can you give me some ideas for a Dilbert comic? And not even a joke, just the basic setup, the idea of the situation. And it really can't do that. It can only give the most obvious ideas. It would be stuff like somebody sitting in for the boss or the boss doesn't give you a raise and you're like that's so boring. I can't do anything with that.
So yes, it is true the humans are still way ahead of AI in coming up with creative ideas because AI is trained on existing ideas. So it's a walking cliché by the time it gets to you.
Now I have another theory of why it is that humans will be better at creative stuff. It's because we can feel what other people are feeling at the same time they're feeling it. So if I knew there was something happening in the news that was different or interesting, I might say, "Well, that's where my creativity will go. I'll make a joke about that or I'll write a song about that because that's what people are thinking and feeling." AI can't do that. AI just looks at what has been done before and tries to do a little more of it. But a human can say what is everybody feeling right now that they don't normally feel and then use that to create. So until they can do that AI will be behind.
A Chinese company that makes robots called Unitree has launched a $5,900 full-size humanoid robot. But you know how I always tell you, I'm not sure AI can ever power a robot because there's probably a reason that we only see it ever doing one thing. Whenever there's a
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video of look at my humanoid robot, it can put this box over on that shelf a hundred times in a row. To which I say, can it do anything else? So, sure enough, this is not a general purpose robot because I don't think those are even possible. I don't know, maybe Elon Musk has solved it, but I just don't think that the current versions of AI can power a robot. So instead of having a general purpose…
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