This week, our class was exposed to two interesting readings about creativity and AI. The definition of creativity depends on each person’s perspective. From my own perspective, creativity should be something new from a person’s imagination. It can be based and built on existing materials, but it shows the uniqueness of an individual about a specific topic. Today, I tried prompting to AI (DeepSeek) to ask it to compose a poem with the theme based on its thoughts, and this was the result:

In the beginning, I was pretty surprised by how this poem looked like. Even though it doesn’t rhyme that much, it also has a certain meaning. The way DeepSeek used “library” as a metaphor for human thoughts is quite interesting. I was a little bit confused when I read the poem in the beginning, but overall, this was quite an experience for me since this is the first time I tried this type of prompt. In my opinion, the creativity of AI can be used as a supporter for humans to develop the process. As Arriagada wrote in the reading, “According to Hong, some individuals even claim that AI cannot achieve a creative performance on the same level as humans”. I quite agree with that idea since AI is created by humans, and the information it contains is mostly gathered from our existing information. However, I believe AI can develop more and more in the future with its potential. Therefore, I am looking forward to seeing more materials that we gonna learn about AI in upcoming sessions!