Creativity is one of the inborn human abilities to modify old or develop new ideas to create novel forms of visual art, valuable products, and applications in any industrial or service sector and find solutions to problems. Humanity has survived all historical calamities due to its creativity. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the latest proof of human capability to imagine and develop technological tools that can significantly increase performance and effectiveness in various areas of human tasks. In this respect, AI augments, compliments, and extends the scope of human creativity.

Artificial Intelligence models trained on art data can reproduce varieties of fine art techniques in exorbitant nuances of colors within a short time. AI enables the artist to view different perspectives and possibilities of original artwork. The scope of artistic variations extends beyond the artist’s imagination. AI generates several options for the artist to select and apply human finishing touches. There are AI tools that convert text to images or videos and vice versa. Anyone can write descriptive text, namely a prompt, about an imagined image or cinematic scenery as input into an AI tool. The tool generates a visual image or video from the content. Some tools specialized in fine art can produce graphics, photorealistic images, and all types of paintings in different mediums. The user can even select the style of a favorite known artist for the tool to generate. This feature of AI enhances and boosts the creativity of professional artists and inspires non-professionals aspiring to become artists.

AI impacts all forms of art, including music. Music composers can apply AI to generate versions of their compositions, and hobby musicians can write prompts for AI tools to generate music in any genre. As AI algorithms advance and hallucinations that create false results are mitigated or eliminated, the usage and impact of AI tools increase.

In the design field, AI can compare shapes, materials, functionalities, production firms, and costs of various designs in local and international databases to compile similarities/differences and generate new forms. It exposes new horizons for designers to multiply their creativity. In architectural design, AI can generate multi-dimensional images of structures and spaces that help the architect create new ideas.

Human creativity is instrumental in developing educational systems that enable knowledge sharing, teaching, and researching a variety of subject matters, which results in the advancement of life. The application of AI accelerates search and analytical procedures that lead to new findings. In the sciences, AI can generate comprehensive alternative ways to synthesize novel chemical/biochemical compounds crucial in the pharmaceutical, agricultural, food-processing, and environment industries. AI has helped to find locations of abundant mineral deposits such as copper, which is vital for the electro industry. The Healthcare sector can apply AI to streamline administration and optimize patients’ welfare, medication prescription, and access to medical history.

The positive impact of AI as a catalyst that expands the zone of human creativity infinitely is immense. The algorithmic technology enables novel application functionalities that create a comfortable lifestyle. Voice-/face-recognition devices, autonomous driverless cars, autonomous manufacturing firms controlled by autonomous robots, and remote security systems are highly creative inventions of humans with the input of AI. AI tools can complete burdensome routine tasks, thereby freeing humans to concentrate on essential quality jobs.

Despite all the positive impacts of AI, it is necessary to consider ethical issues concerning AI applications. The user should recognize and respect original creative works, intellectual property, and copyright. The problems entailed in AI bias and hallucination involving discriminatory, insulting, marginalizing, violence-promoting, unjustified, faulty images and texts are serious. Software engineers should test AI algorithms and train models extensively with high-quality data before release.

AI technology results from human creativity. It impacts creativity as an extension and booster of creative ideas. Regardless of what AI generates in any creative field, humans must still check for product correctness, ethical compliance, and human emotional acceptance.

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