Artificial intelligence systems found to excel at imitation, but not innovation

The article discusses a study from the University of California, Berkeley, which highlights the limitations of AI systems compared to human abilities. The study found that while AI can summarize existing knowledge and culture, it struggles when it comes to innovation and thinking of novel uses for everyday objects. Children demonstrated a much higher ability to innovate compared to AI systems when presented with similar tasks. The researchers emphasized that AI systems rely on statistically predicting linguistic patterns and are not able to discover new information about the world in the way humans, particularly young children, can.