Creativity and AI

We test whether AI machines outperform humans in creative tasks with a different degree of “openness”. We enroll 251 subjects who blindly evaluate six creative answers drawn at random from a bank of 160 creative answers generated by humans and machines. Humans have a significantly and substantially higher score on average than machines in an open task, while this direction is completely reversed in a closed task. We structurally estimate a model describing human versus machine “preferences” for openness in creative tasks Humans’ ability of judgment contributes between the 35% and 45% of the creative score in the Open task.