Why Creativity Is Now More Important Than Intelligence

Machines can now do what you could call IQ-style thinking – covering what'multiple intelligences' theorist Howard Gardner would call visual-spatial, verbal-linguistic and logical-mathematical intelligence – pretty darn well. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here and it's getting more sophisticated every day. But AC – Artificial Creativity – barely exists. AI has been unsettling the human world for quite some time. Can you believe it was 1997 when IBM's Deep Blue computer triumphed over chess colossus Garry Kasparov?