In her second paper on creativity and AI, Lindsay Brainard raises the question, "Should we still be striving to make our students, or our children, creative?" This question addresses the implications of AI on creativity in education and whether AI can potentially make human creativity obsolete1. Brainard aims to explore this topic in depth, considering the value of human creativity that AI may not be capable of achieving.
Lindsay Brainard defines creativity in the context of AI and human capabilities as the ability to generate things that are new and have value. In her assessment, AI models like ChatGPT could qualify as creative based on this definition. However, she argues that an important aspect of creativity is curiosity, which is currently missing from AI models. In her paper "The Curious Case of Uncurious Creation," Brainard explores the question of whether AI can make human creativity in the arts and sciences obsolete and argues that it is unlikely due to the lack of curiosity in current AI models56.
Lindsay Brainard's main focus of research at the University of Alabama at Birmingham is the philosophy of creativity, particularly in the context of artificial intelligence (AI). She explores whether AI models can be considered creative and examines the future of human creativity in relation to the advancements in AI technology1.