Best humans still outperform artificial intelligence in a creative divergent thinking task

2026

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1) This study reveals that while AI chatbots can produce creative outputs comparable to or exceeding average human performance in divergent thinking tasks, the best human ideas still match or surpass AI, highlighting the unique complexity of human creativity.
2) * Compares the creativity of humans and three AI chatbots on a divergent thinking task (Alternate Uses Task).
* Analyzes responses using both semantic distance (objective measure) and human subjective ratings.
* Finds that AI chatbots generally outperform humans on average, but the highest-scoring human responses remain competitive.
3) AI, creativity, divergent thinking, human vs AI, chatbots

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