Are you aware of Christopher Langan’s work, CTMU, Cognitive Theoretic Model of the Universe?

...nor volition, nor sentience. 💯

💯AI can only reflect back what it already knows. It cannot think in the abstract

No but I will be soon, very interesting 👨‍🚀

Until you give it one.

The question you need to ask is, how do humans create in the first place and more importantly why? Always comes back to the interplay between morality and general finitude. AI, as with everything else has to respond to general finitude or simply the confines of physics and the like, but can it replicate morality. The fact that humans and every other living thing has to respond to morality, it gives us these innate faculties and proclivities that perhaps AI will never be able to endure or feel. So sure AI’s will be able to create things when prompted by the human, but when it comes to an autonomous AGI where, why, and how will it find its telos or purpose to create?

I’ve just realised I kept saying morality instead or mortality ffs😂

Yeah, for the moment. No telling when it might extend beyond that function. But extend it will, barring some civilisational catastrophe.

in most cases it is just a bad search engine. The abstraction added on top makes difficult to verify the sources of the knowledge and manage dissidious around subjects.

I heard someone call it a word calculator, and that made a ton of sense to me.

If you're good at using search engines and a fast reader, it's a bad search engine.