It seems to me that everything we make or do is based or built on something else. It seems humanly impossible to create something entirely new and original. Only The Creator himself has been able to achieve this feat. So I think it is safe to exclude the creating of new and original things from the discussion that seat of creativity is permanently occupied by God.

So the question becomes who is the best forger instead of who is most creative. One notable problem that AI faces is the quality or variety of its dataset. Apparently distinguishing what belongs in a photo for example and even the relationship between the elements in a photo can be a problem for AI. The example was given where the generator “created” an image of a cat with letters incorporated into the image just because the original image contained a cat meme. With the help of GANs however this problem can eventually be eliminated or at least minimalized.

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That will mark a big leap forward in what’s known in AI as “unsupervised learning.” A self-driving car could teach itself about many different road conditions without leaving the garage. A robot could anticipate the obstacles it might encounter in a busy warehouse without needing to be taken around it.

Humans on the other hand have no personal GAN to flag forgeries and effect corrections or modifications to a flawed datasource. When the source data has been compromised we have no mechanism to identify the fake so we continue with bad information producing flawed output. Does this give the AI and edge?

This depends on the source of the flawed data. If it happens naturally then I would say the playing field is level: human intuition vs Artificial processing power. Where however the flawed data is deliberate originating from a malicious source then Humans will need to rely on God the source which holds the true and original “source data”. Artificial Intelligence lacks this option. Looks like we win, what do you think?

For more information on the implications of GANs see the article below.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/610253/the-ganfather-the-man-whos-given-machines-the-gift-of-imagination/