AI applications have been useful in terms of detection, prediction, control and recognition.
How about creativity and reasoning?
The problem with the notion of AI being creative is that artificial intelligence, computers, etc. operate exclusively by way of internal programming. For AI applications to become truly creative, they would have to transcend their programming. But transcending programming is not possible for inorganic systems like machines, since they have no self-determination. Random 'behavior' would not constitute creativity, since creativity is not random but purposive. If one asks whether an AI application can be programmed to transcend its programming, then one would be asking a circular question. On the other hand, one could ask whether an AI application could ever 'evolve' on its own to transcend its programming. However, evolution of any kind is an adaptive change in physiology or behavior that results from the interaction between an organism and its environment, via mutation and selection. The question then is how this could be possible in an inorganic system whose 'activity' is determined exclusively via an internal program.
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