TY  - JOUR
AU  - Cai, Weiwei
AU  - Gao, Ming
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/03/27
TI  - Beyond Hallucination: Generative AI as a Catalyst for Human Creativity and Cognitive Evolution
JO  - ICCK Transactions on Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence
T2  - ICCK Transactions on Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence
JF  - ICCK Transactions on Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence
VL  - 2
IS  - 1
SP  - 36
EP  - 42
DO  - 10.62762/TETAI.2025.657559
UR  - https://www.icck.org/article/abs/TETAI.2025.657559
KW  - generative AI
KW  - AI hallucination
KW  - ethical AI
KW  - cognitive evolution
AB  - This perspective examines the transformative role of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in augmenting human creativity and catalyzing cognitive evolution. Tracing its historical development from symbolic AI to transformer-based architectures, it contends that generative AI is not simply a computational tool but a cognitive partner that reconfigures our understanding of creativity, perception, and epistemology. The phenomenon of AI hallucination—often dismissed as mere error—is reframed as a window into the dynamics of both artificial and human cognition. Through technical and philosophical analysis, the paper addresses generative AI's impact across domains ranging from art and architecture to scientific discovery and education. It further interrogates the ethical, societal, and metaphysical questions raised by AI-human symbiosis and outlines a vision for a co-evolutionary future beyond hallucination, in which creativity arises from collaboration between minds—both biological and artificial.
SN  - 3068-6652
PB  - Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge
LA  - English
ER  - 

@article{Cai2025Beyond,
  author = {Weiwei Cai and Ming Gao},
  title = {Beyond Hallucination: Generative AI as a Catalyst for Human Creativity and Cognitive Evolution},
  journal = {ICCK Transactions on Emerging Topics in Artificial Intelligence},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {2},
  number = {1},
  pages = {36-42},
  doi = {10.62762/TETAI.2025.657559},
  url = {https://www.icck.org/article/abs/TETAI.2025.657559},
  abstract = {This perspective examines the transformative role of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in augmenting human creativity and catalyzing cognitive evolution. Tracing its historical development from symbolic AI to transformer-based architectures, it contends that generative AI is not simply a computational tool but a cognitive partner that reconfigures our understanding of creativity, perception, and epistemology. The phenomenon of AI hallucination—often dismissed as mere error—is reframed as a window into the dynamics of both artificial and human cognition. Through technical and philosophical analysis, the paper addresses generative AI's impact across domains ranging from art and architecture to scientific discovery and education. It further interrogates the ethical, societal, and metaphysical questions raised by AI-human symbiosis and outlines a vision for a co-evolutionary future beyond hallucination, in which creativity arises from collaboration between minds—both biological and artificial.},
  keywords = {generative AI, AI hallucination, ethical AI, cognitive evolution},
  issn = {3068-6652},
  publisher = {Institute of Central Computation and Knowledge}
}