Being able to imitate Monet doesn't make you Monet. AI can't create anything original.
> AI can't create anything original.
Can we? I mean, don't we base our output on experience and reprocess references + memories of things past to create what we deem as "new"?
Not that I think it should have. Kill it with fire and EMPs.
Under many definitions, where novel composition of existing knowledge or techniques is counted, it certainly can.
Original is something that is out of the data distribution. AI can't do anything original, because it's job is to imitate the data distribution.
Originality in itself is not hard, because pure noise is original. It should be original and beautiful.