This week I read a second article on Creativity and generative AI (genAI). Six key aspects of creativity are too difficult for genAI to replicate because it is simply too human. Those aspects are: curiosity, intuition, patience / mindfulness, imagination, empathy, and embodied thinking. I will write about them in greater detail herein as well as their implications for education.
Curiosity has creative insight as precursor, motivation, and genAI does not compare. Intuition means jumping steps in reasoning; genAI is limited by logic; thus, intuition remains illusive. Patience / mindfulness indicate a nonjudgmental patience linked to creativity; it is open, uncertain, and reflective. Imagination is grounded in lived experience across time and tension. Empathy is relational, conceived, and replicated by genAI in only one direction. Embodied thinking is rooted in the physical body; genAI can simulate this but it will be lacking; performance is not presence.
Education implications of genAI: The big question: can genAI phase out human creativity? I think not because of the above. AI may come close but will ultimately lack the human features we count numerous in education. Making the six aspects cornerstones of learning in education is pivotal. We must foster literacy of AI in a way that keeps difference between human creativity and AI as it is always going to be a non-human entity.
I enjoyed reading more about creativity and think I can apply this paper to my future work without supposing the genAI pieces. It also made me want to revisit the Glaveanu pieces from week 13. I feel more confident about what I’m searching for with creativity and hope to apply it to my work next semester.
Works Cited
DeSchryver, M., Henriksen, D., Leahy, S., & Lindsay, S. (in press). Beyond automation: Intrinsically human aspects of creativity in the age of generative AI. In R. Beghetto (Ed.), The Oxford handbook of human creativity and generative artificial intelligence in education. Oxford University Press.
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