On 2/6/2026 3:34 AM, John Clark wrote:
> /The real debate now is whether LLMs are truly creative./
*For at least the last five years computershave done things that if a
Human had performed them there would be no debate whatsoever,
everybody would agree it was creative. But for some people if a
computer has done it then it is, by definition, not creative. But I
think if that is the definition of the word "creative" then the word
is not of much use. *
It's just a semantic problem of treating a property "creative" as if it
were all-or-nothing. There are degrees of creativity. Putting together
notes to create a musical score is creative even if you didn't create
notes and musical notation. Putting together musical phrases is also
creative, just less so. It's more creative if you put together more
disparate things to work in a way unknown before. LLMs are creative;
they put together phrases and sentences that are made of existing fragments.
Brent
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