AI Matches Human Creativity, Musk Warns at Davos & Kubernetes for AI | Tech News Digest - Jan 24, 2026

AI Creativity Now Matches Average Humans, But Lags Behind Top Innovators, Study Reveals A landmark study from the Université de Montréal, co-authored by AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, reveals that leading AI models now match or exceed the average human’s creative abilities in linguistic tasks. Published in Scientific Reports, the research is the largest comparative study of its kind, testing large language models like GPT-4, Claude, and Gemini against 100,000 people. While models like GPT-4 have achieved a significant milestone by reaching average human creativity, the study underscores that the most creative individuals still significantly outperform the most advanced AI systems. ...

January 24, 2026 · 5 min · 987 words · Omer