AXIOS March 13, 2025
Tech evangelists predict the arrival of “superintelligence” any year now, but others doubt AI will ever produce its own Leonardos and Einsteins.
Driving the news: In a post on X Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman touted the company’s development of “a new model that is good at creative writing” and showed off its work — a thousand-word “metafictional” composition on “AI and grief.”
Why it matters: Creativity could be the final hurdle for AI to leap in proving it’s humanity’s peer — but until then, many see it as the last bastion of humanity’s irreplaceability.
The big picture: Whether telling stories or researching scientific breakthroughs, today’s generative AI isn’t very good at creative leaps and novel insights.
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