Inspiration and AI
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What Role Does Inspiration Play in AI?
In human creativity, what role does inspiration play and is it transferable to AI / LLM's?
Humans are inspired by the world around them, the sights, sounds and other senses all play a part. One could argue that AI could do the same thing, but with a much larger lens.
Inspired creativity requires conscious thought, perception and the ability to see/imagine the future. Can AI do that? Can AI ever recognize when an idea or the juxtaposition of facts and surroundings equals something worthy of exploration and will resonate with humans?
Is AI destine to create new structures and ideas that only other AI's can appreciate? Is a whole other society being created?
Of course, the ethical question remains the elephant in the room. LLM's are built on the collective works of humans. In many cases, copyrighted works that they have no right to use.
While human inspiration comes from a human experience, stored as memories and thoughts in a human brain, can we also say that AI can be inspired by it's larger lens of experiences & memories? Except that the source of those experiences & memories is work that has been captured, stored and analyzed in a commercial system. It has been physically captured and used without permission with it's derivative work sold to users on line.
Let's agree that a human can look at a painting, read a book, or listen to music, and store those memories in their brain for personal use. Then create something new that has been inspired by those memories - but not legally create a derivative work.
Is a public library the same thing as a LLM created by a non-profit, where you can check out a book and not violate the author's rights as long as the book was purchased or donated for the use?
Does this mean that only ethical way to treat LLM's and AI's are as public utilities which are regulated on behalf of society as a whole?
