Can AI think out of the box?

Despite the super power of human mind, it still bias, and limited to its own thoughts and old experiences. As a result, generating new ideas, or thinking out of the box become challenging task.

AI/ML fans promote that this technology capable to think out of all boxes, flourishing the humanity with creative ideas, moving them to more creative life … but is this true?

To test this concept, experts ask AI/ML algorithm to control a spider-simulator that has six-feet, and try to move it with the minimum number of feet touching the grounds. It was expected that the AI will able to do so with four-feet, but for the surprise, it was able to move the spider with ZERO-feet! It simply flipped it-self and move it using elbows.

The experiment (see at 1:50):

from one-side, this is very creative idea … but from other side … this “creative” is not applicable. This experiment shade lights on the high “out-of-box” AI skills, but also, it warns that such idea could lead to “Off the cliff” ones. 

Imagine a pilot in critical situation asked the plane-AI to release any items to reduce its weight … then the AI eject the pilot himself!

AI/ML has strong capability generating creative ideas … but -at the moment- it should stop in “generating the idea”, the execution must be handled by the human factor … 

At the end, the line between creativity and madness is a fine line,and AI can easily bypass it!