As humans, we have some unique abilities. We are self-aware, we exhibit critical thinking and we have the ability to be creative and innovate. Will that always be the case? Some think that artificial intelligence (AI) will someday take over creativity and innovation.

In my opinion, AI will become a tool that will help improve our creativity and innovation but I doubt that it can takeover what I see as an inherit human ability to our conscious and unconscious mind to invent.

How Will Artificial Intelligence Help Our Creative Ability?

In a recent article in Venture Beat by Tim Sox titled, “How AI will advance our creative thinking“, the author shares a list of ways AI will be a tool. These include:

* AI will reshape talent and recruitment

* It will test and develop creative thinking

* AI will uncover non-obvious insight

* It will speed up the creative process

* It will transform global communication

What Will Be Artificial Intelligence Impact On Jobs?

If AI is going to eliminate some of the more mundane jobs, which jobs will be impacted and what should you do about it? In a recent article by  Scott Gerber of on TNW, he shares the results of a survey from the Yound Entrepreneur Council asking them which jobs would be most impacted by artificial intelligence.

Here is the high level list – not in priority/impact order:

* Forcasting

* Customer Service

* Education

* Finance

* Foodservices

* Personalized Healthcare

* Medical

* Logistics

* Loyalty Programs

* Marketing

* Procurement

* Public Relations

* Search

* Security

Check out the full description of how and why AI will impact these jobs over at TNW.

Will We See Artificial Intelligence With Imagination?

Can AI have imagination? Can it imagine the future of what might happen without being told to do so?

We've all seen the current public displays of artificial intelligence including AlphaGo which benefits from having clearly defined rules which allow outcomes to be predicted very accurately in almost every circumstance.

Or Facebook which has created a bot that could reason through dialogue before engaging in conversation in a fairly constrained environment.

The real-world is significantly more complex than this.

Mallory Locklear in Engadget wrote an article on what IBM is doing with what it calls “imagination-augmented agents – or I2As. These are neural network trained to extract any information from its environment that could be useful in making decisions later on. These agents can create, evaluate and follow through on plans.

Creativity and Innovation Overrated?

Eliot Gattegno from Techcrunch wrote a post back in May titled “Creativity is Overrated“. While the title could be viewed as clickbait, then premise he makes is important.

We are seeing society fall into “creativity worship” when we see star status applied to innovators. What about the non-creatives? A company full of Steve Jobs' will not be successful.