If human need drives the creative process, then there will always be a human in the loop. Instead, each human becomes the “random seed” that initialises the process based on their own unique make-up. This is only different from how things work now, in that humans are also creating the artefact.
Similar to how synths meant we no longer need to play an instruments by plucking strings, it hasn’t affected the higher level creativity of creating music, only expanded it.
Depends what you mean by creativity. In some ways, AI is not creative at all, everything is generated by mapping text to visuals using diffusion modelling via a shared latent space. It has no agency or creative thought of its own.
Humans have demonstrated time and again, even things beyond our experience can be explored by us; quantum mechanics for example. Humans find a way to map very complex subjects to our own experience using analogy. Maybe AI can help us go further by allowing us to do this on even more complex ideas.
In theory, creativity is an infinite space. As technology advances it allows humans to explore more and more complex things; take the advancement of music as an example, synths, loops etc.
If humans are not stretched to their limits, and are still able to be creative, then the tools will help us find our way through this infinite space.
AI will never be able to generate everything for us, because that means it will need infinite computation.
However, the way it is progressing is that the SOTA is saturating the current benchmarks; then a new one is conceived as people understand the nature of what it means to be intelligent. It seems only natural to concentrate on one benchmark at a time.
Francois Chollet mentioned that the test tries to avoid curve fitting (which he states is the main ability of LLMs). However, they specifically restricted the number of examples to do this. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that many examples could have been generated by hand though, and that the curve fitting has been achieved, rather than discrete programming.
Anyway, it’s all supposition. It’s difficult to know how genuine the results is, without knowledge of how it was actually achieved.
Similar to how synths meant we no longer need to play an instruments by plucking strings, it hasn’t affected the higher level creativity of creating music, only expanded it.