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Can AI be truly creative?

Chatbots and AI models are challenging ideas about who — or what — can create art, music and more.
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  1. Jo Marchant

    1. Jo Marchant is a science journalist and host of the creative-thinking podcast Where the Wild Thoughts Are.

Conceptual illustration showing a neural network creating artworks, music and poetry.

Illustration by Rafał Kwiczor

Pianita number 17 is a short, haunting piece for the piano. Set in the D minor key, its poignant chords and softly ascending arpeggios convey a sense of lost love, yet with enough novelty — dissonant notes and an eerie timing shift — to lift the piece out of cliché. What searing life experiences, then, did the composer pour into this work?

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Nature 647, 24-26 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-03570-y

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