Reasons for ChatGPT’s Limits to Creativity

Written By Tony McCaffrey

  • ChatGPT and other LLMs have limited creativity because they build text based on the common associations among words. Creative solutions, in contrast, are built upon the obscure associations of a problem's keywords (NSF funded research). Obscure associations are uncommon but semantically close. (NSF grants: #1534740, #1345439 #1261052, #1127609)

  • ChatGPT's limits also exist partly because ChatGPT is trained on human-generated text, within which all human blindspots to creativity are present: functional fixedness, design fixation, goal fixedness, assumption blindness, and analogy blindness.

Tony McCaffrey
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