Stunning! AI “Creativity” Is Highly Predictable, Researchers Find

Is AI truly creative or is it, as Noam Chomsky put it, merely “high-tech plagiarism?” Multiple studies have documented that AI is more creative and more efficient at creative tasks than humans. But in a stunning paper that just appeared, researchers demonstrate that images produced with (simple) convolutional neural nets are 90% predictable by purely analytical methods. So how creative is AI really? Let’s take a look.