{"id":181337,"date":"2026-01-24T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/artificial-intelligence-can-now-beat-average-humans-in-creativity-study-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T21:20:09","slug":"artificial-intelligence-can-now-beat-average-humans-in-creativity-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/24\/artificial-intelligence-can-now-beat-average-humans-in-creativity-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence can now beat average humans in creativity, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/post\/artificial-intelligence-can-now-beat-average-humans-in-creativity-study-finds\/\">Artificial intelligence can now beat average humans in creativity, study finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/post\/artificial-intelligence-can-now-beat-average-humans-in-creativity-study-finds\/\">https:\/\/www.thebrighterside.news\/post\/artificial-intelligence-can-now-beat-average-humans-in-creativity-study-finds\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-24 16:07:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.thebrighterside.news\">www.thebrighterside.news<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scientists from three universities conducted a large-scale study comparing human creativity with modern large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini, led by Professor Karim Jerbi and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio.<\/li>\n<li>The study, published in Scientific Reports, utilized over 100,000 human participants and examined AI&#8217;s ability through divergent thinking tasks and creative writing.<\/li>\n<li>Results showed that some AI models outperformed average human scores on specific tasks, specifically using the Divergent Association Task (DAT), while the top human performers still excelled.<\/li>\n<li>AI&#8217;s performance varied greatly, with GPT-4 achieving higher average scores than the human sample, indicating AI can match human creativity in certain measurable ways.<\/li>\n<li>However, even the highest performing AI still lacked the creativity and depth of the top 10 percent of human creators.<\/li>\n<li>The study highlighted inherent differences in how humans and machines generate ideas, with AI models often relying on a narrow set of words, while humans exhibited greater variety.<\/li>\n<li>Creativity in AI could be tuned by settings like temperature and prompt design, showing that AI creativity heavily depends on human guidance.<\/li>\n<li>While AI can replicate and sometimes surpass average human creative outputs on tasks like word lists, human creativity in more complex, idea-interconnected domains remains superior.<\/li>\n<li>The researchers concluded that AI should not be seen as a replacement but rather 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