You imply a bunch of things I didn't say. We don't have a definition or model of creativity or intelligence, even within humans and other animals. Most humans struggle to view other things as intelligent when they are at a close inspection. We have some mild understanding at a sort of system level, but it's usually enough to generally bin things up into not intelligent or not.
For something like the original post, we do know what these things are. They're statistical models. Full stop. They show no indication of what we see in creative and intelligent behavior, that is the ability to self-adapt to both internal and external initiatives. This GAN in the post has no ability to step outside of the statistics in the training set unless the model is updated to prod it to do so. The model can be changed, but it is a forceful change. If you show me tens of thousands of images, I am not, at an emergent, top-level, system level, etc., bounded to the statistics of that image set. Is this GAN asked something or given a goal aside from an implicit "draw something like what we've given you"? Even if I do draw something like or akin to the given image set, I have full creative control over the image (assuming some drawing skill).
If the human brain (and really body) can be modeled via a statistical model (which is not yet known but is surmised as you imply), that doesn't necessarily explain high-level behaviors. More is different. You call it magic sauce, but others call it emergence. Our understanding of emergent behavior and complex systems at large is still in work.
In my view, metaphorical thinking, of which analogical thinking is a subset, is a likely kernel of human intelligence. While these statistical models are copying, which is similar in a way to analogy building, it's not quite there. The reason things it generates looks like other things is because it searched a parameter space for matching statistics. However, it cannot even explain that's why it generated what it did. We explain for it. These things are no more artificially intelligent than things like thermodynamics are naturally intelligent.
Lastly, as I pointed out in my original comment, if this is indeed creative as someone like you implies, the article fails to make a convincing argument and bounces around a lot of buzzwords.
> I find it very irritating that such shallow reasoning prevails amongst intelligent people.
For something like the original post, we do know what these things are. They're statistical models. Full stop. They show no indication of what we see in creative and intelligent behavior, that is the ability to self-adapt to both internal and external initiatives. This GAN in the post has no ability to step outside of the statistics in the training set unless the model is updated to prod it to do so. The model can be changed, but it is a forceful change. If you show me tens of thousands of images, I am not, at an emergent, top-level, system level, etc., bounded to the statistics of that image set. Is this GAN asked something or given a goal aside from an implicit "draw something like what we've given you"? Even if I do draw something like or akin to the given image set, I have full creative control over the image (assuming some drawing skill).
If the human brain (and really body) can be modeled via a statistical model (which is not yet known but is surmised as you imply), that doesn't necessarily explain high-level behaviors. More is different. You call it magic sauce, but others call it emergence. Our understanding of emergent behavior and complex systems at large is still in work.
In my view, metaphorical thinking, of which analogical thinking is a subset, is a likely kernel of human intelligence. While these statistical models are copying, which is similar in a way to analogy building, it's not quite there. The reason things it generates looks like other things is because it searched a parameter space for matching statistics. However, it cannot even explain that's why it generated what it did. We explain for it. These things are no more artificially intelligent than things like thermodynamics are naturally intelligent.
Lastly, as I pointed out in my original comment, if this is indeed creative as someone like you implies, the article fails to make a convincing argument and bounces around a lot of buzzwords.
> I find it very irritating that such shallow reasoning prevails amongst intelligent people.
I was offended, but I suppose I agree. ;)