AI just beat the average human on a creativity test involving 100,000 people, and the researchers say the real question is whether the gap between average and exceptional will hold

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The headline writes itself and, predictably, wrote itself badly in most places it appeared. A study published in Scientific Reports in January 2026 compared the performance of several large language models, including GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini, against more than 100,000 human participants on a standard test of divergent thinking. Some AI models scored above the ... Read more