Is AI creative?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Society & Culture, News, Politics, News Commentary, Philosophy

4.6 • 10.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What is the relationship between creativity and artificial intelligence? Creativity feels innately human, but is it? Can a machine be creative? Are we still being creative if we use machines to assist in our creative output? To help answer those questions, Sean speaks with Meghan O'Gieblyn, the author of the book "God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning." She and Sean discuss how the rise of AI is forcing us to reflect on what it means to be a creative being and whether our relationship to the written word has already been changed forever. This is the first conversation in our three shows in three days three-part series about creativity. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling) Guest: Meghan O'Gieblyn (https://www.meghanogieblyn.com/) References: God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning by Meghan O'Gieblyn (Anchor; 2021) Being human in the age of AI. The Gray Area. (Vox Media; 2023) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/being-human-in-the-age-of-ai/id1081584611?i=1000612148857 Support The Gray Area by becoming a Vox Member: https://www.vox.com/support-now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, I'm Ashley C. Ford and I'm the host of Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and justice, produced with Vox Creative.
0:10.4	And in our new mini series, we're talking about voter fraud.
0:15.0	For years now, former President Donald Trump has made it a key talking point,
0:19.3	despite there being no evidence of widespread fraud.
0:22.9	But what impact do claims like these have
0:25.6	on ordinary voters?
0:27.6	People like Olivia Coley Pearson,
0:30.1	a civil servant in Douglas Georgia
0:32.2	who was arrested for voter fraud
0:33.7	because she showed a first-time voter how the voting machines worked.
0:38.0	Hear how she fought back on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
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0:48.0	What is the relationship between creativity and intelligence.
0:54.6	That's a fundamental perhaps unanswerable question.
0:59.0	Is it also an obsolete one?
1:01.9	The question now seems to be, what is the relationship between
1:05.2	creativity and artificial intelligence? Creativity feels innately human, but what if it's not? the and scientists are already debating whether the art and the writing generated by mid-journey and chat
1:26.4	GPT are examples of machines being creative.
1:31.9	But should the focus be on the output, the art that's generated, or the input, the
1:38.9	the inspiration, and all the work and toiling that goes into making it.
1:44.0	And what about the other smaller ways in which we use our creativity?
1:49.0	Like in a prank on a friend or in a note to a loved one.
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