Creativity should have been the last win for AI. Surprisingly, it's the first

When OpenAI's DALL.E 2 was released two weeks back, the AI tool's ability to create images using sparse natural language instructions caused an online frenzy. Whatever its predecessor DALL.E could do, DALL.E 2 could do better. After the announcement, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman spoke about the potential upsides of DALL.E 2 and the general direction that AI was moving towards in his blog. According to Altman, the general idea that AI's contributions would affect physical labour first, followed by cognitive labour and then eventually reach creative work has been reversed in reality. "It now looks like it's going to go in the opposite order," he noted.