The Main Path to Truly Creative AI

I think the main reason AI is not creative in the way that humans are is because our creativity is powered by intrinsic drives.We want to survive, thrive, and reproduce.Evolution gave us these drives, as well as a whole set of associated fears.This set of drives and fears aren't just present in us: they're experienced by us. And that experience of them powers both creativity and art.AI doesn't have intrinsic hardcoding of drives and subjective experience. So it can't feel anything. And because it can't feel anything, it is not driven to create or to emote.It is, however, very good at emulating these things.I think the forward edge of AI creativity hinges on how well we can put it into situations where it behaves as if it does care. As if it does feel. As if it does experience.So the whole game becomes making it believe it's really feeling these things.This seems profound to me. It seems like a very big thing to give something desires when it didn't have them before.We do this when we…