Silvia Rondini, a predoctoral researcher and member of UBICS and IDIBELL (Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute), has led a new study that confirms that human creativity still surpasses artificial intelligence (AI). Her research has been published in the esteemed journal Advanced Science, and it has been concluded that, despite the appearance of autonomous creative agents in current generative AI models, a detailed examination of their imaginative procesess reveals that their capabilities are unreal.
An international team of experts from the Cognition and Brain Plasticity Research Group of the Institute of Neuroscience of the UB (UBneuro), the Computer Vision Center (CVC-UAB), and the Vienna Cognitive Science Hub have collaborated on this research, including Dr. Dan Dediu, also a member of UBICS and the Department of Catalan Philology and General Linguistics of the University of Barcelona.
The research is entitled Stable Diffusion Models Reveal a Persisting Human-AI Gap In Visual Creativity and focuses on visual creativity and imagination. It began in 2024 during a workshop organized by the Fundació Èpica La Fura dels Baus, which focuses its work on promoting interdisciplinary collaborations between science, technology and art. . You can access its content through this link.