The black box of thought. Our creativity is a mystery like artificial intelligence.

Both find links between disparate things, but we have no idea how they do it. ChatGPT and its colleagues generate results that no one, not even its own creators, had imagined. Some are pure and simple lies, or fantasies if you prefer to call them that. Others find angles that the user had not anticipated. Emergent complexity is a central theme of science, from particle physics to neurology and beyond.