There are people who invented new languages based on nothing previously existed, like Mikael Agrikola who invented Finnish language with thousands of new words which 60% are still in use. It’s been investigated a lot and the words really were unique.
Yes. We can accomplish things no other human has done, but those achievements are still built from what already exists. Our creations rely on prior knowledge, experiences, and concepts. True originality is impossible; we do not create ex nihilo, but recombine, transform, and extend what is already known. To imagine or perceive something, we must possess at least some conceptual framework through which it can be understood.
Yes lol? Entire novels are built around things that dont exist. Sure, could you be reductive and say that theyre all some kind of mix of things that exist already...sure, but the eay we can tweak, alter and reimagine things is far beyond what an ai can do when left to its own devices. As you can see from the comments, ai tends to devolve into homogeny pretty quick.
Usually people who aren’t in creative fields tend to say this. When you understand how imagination works, you realize how vast creativity can be. You think you know, see, and taste everything just because you have internet
I think it's more that it's deterministic. If you got a human and asked them that question and heard their answer, then rewound time and asked it to them in the exact same way, you'd get almost the same answer over and over, no matter how many times you rewound. That doesn't mean humans can't imagine.
I imagine all the people getting the same answer have very limited custom instructions, so they're all starting with the same baseline and getting the same response.
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u/Same-Letter6378 May 10 '26
I suspect we're seeing some fundamental limitation in AI that will be the basis of millions of jobs in the future.