Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2023
Abstract
Creativity was once considered a primarily, if not exclusively, human endeavor. People create art, literature, and music, while machines handle mechanical tasks, like a typewriter or camera. The world has changed, and in the current year those changes are disrupting conventional ideas about authorship and creativity. Developments in the power and robustness of artificial intelligence ( or AI) have made it possible for a wide array of creative AI-generated works to be created. Early developments, such as IBM Deep Blue's mastery of the game of chess, were still somewhat mechanical in nature, as they were based on the computer analyzing vast numbers of games and moves in order to find the optimal result. But the development of machine learning has progressed to the point that AI can succeed at creative games (such as Go) and can create works normally thought to be only the province of human creativity. The Turing test-whether it is not possible to distinguish AI works from human-made content- has long been satisfied. Recent developments such as ChatGPT have moved the state of AI almost to the brink of matching human creativity.
Recommended Citation
Gary Myers,
The Future Is Now: Copyright Protection for Works Created by Artificial Intelligence, 102 Texas Law Review Online 8
(2023).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/facpubs/1214
