Author:
Ahmed Amer
Mentor:
David Caicedo, Ph.D.
Abstract:
As one of the most notable and powerful emerging technologies in artificial intelligence, ChatGPT has posed significant implications for human-AI collaboration, particularly in relation to human creativity. This study sought insight into how students of different verbal creativity levels interacted with ChatGPT predicting a correlation between degrees of verbal creativity and the likelihood of interacting with ChatGPT in an actively collaborative, dialogue style versus passively extracting its output. Forty New York City, social science college students, 70% of which are native English speakers, with a female-to-male ratio of 75%-25%, and age distributions of 68% for 18-24, 18% for 25-30, 10% for 30+ and 4% unknown, reported their Divergent Association Task (DAT) scores, completed a ChatGPT usage survey on a Likert Scale, and responded to two open-ended questions about attitudes towards AI language models. Results showed no correlations between any usage habits and DAT scores, but there was a strong, positive correlation between measures of user communication with ChatGPT and usage for the aim of inspiration. Moderate correlations were found linking curiosity with skepticism and inspiration as well. This research is vital in addressing growing concerns of AI language models diminishing creative and critical thinking skills among students, with future impacts on integrating AI tools in educational and creative contexts via human-AI collaboration and augmented intelligence models.
