Will AGI be more creative than us?

Creativity is often defined as the ability to come up with new original combinations based on the same set of ingredients.

Imagine a cooking show where every chef arrives at the competition with an enormous set of ingredients collected over their entire lives. Each chef is ready to invent with them a new original winning recipe.

Now imagine the producers of the show decided to spice things up and invited a surprise AGI celebrity chef that brings with it a pantry of ingredients compiled from every kitchen in the world:

The AGI chef would be capable of finding new commonalities between different ingredients that no other human chef had noticed before. It could detect correlations, check for causations and invent the unimaginable at a pace that surpasses the limits of our own creativity.

The phrase “think outside of the box” acquires a whole new dimension when we are up against a future AGI that’s literally thinking outside its box.