One has to be very specific when throwing around words like "creative" when talking about A.I
Can A.I create art. Well it can create something that's pleasing to our senses but art is ultimately about conveying human feelings and emotions. Even as humans, understanding art is not universal. "feelings and emotions" and therefore art, can be deeply tied to a particular groups shared beliefs and experiences.
Can it be creative in non-subjective fields such as math or sciences. Einstein derived GR from his creative thought experiments. If an A.I poped out GR's field equations simply by testing different mathematical frameworks that resolve the issues discovered by experiments, is that creative? Perhaps but certainly not in the same way.
Current models are trained on image pastiche and style remixing. But there's no reason you couldn't add an Artistic Director layer which has been trained on emotional and cultural signifiers and to direct the pastiche and remixing.
The practical problem is that models have very limited prompt adherence. The level of detail you can specify in scene design is very crude. So you can get the slop effect where there's a lot of in-fill pastiche detail, but you could never create something like this, where all of the incidental objects are specifically included to enforce the message.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Awakening_Conscience
It's basically the professional version of the "Draw me a pelican on a bicycle" problem.
There are situations where you want that level of creative control, and current image generators don't get close to it.
And without it you can't get to the meta-creativity level where you're creating a new aesthetic that's a cultural landmark - which is what the famous artists did, and still do.
> art is ultimately about conveying human feelings and emotions
you made a small error, art is mostly about generating an emotion in the viewer/listener/.... not about transmitting an emotion of the creator
the Wikipedia page on art starts with:
> Art is a diverse range of cultural activity centered around works utilizing creative or imaginative talents, which are expected to evoke a worthwhile experience
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art
so AIs can do art, because they are only required to generate an emotional response in the receiver
His definition of creativity is closed-loop, i.e. the produced concept has to be novel for the system itself, not for the side observer.
Contemporary humans downvote art because it makes them uncomfortable.
They just want dopamine. No thinking because that hurts.