Imagination vs. Creativity

Imagination and creativity are distinct: imagination reasons forward from a current state to possibilities already known to be reachable, while creativity reasons backward from desired outcomes to build new possibilities. Donny Chen's Lego dragon, built from 6500-7000 pieces and about 2 meters long, is cited as showing far more of both than the simpler models described. Bug-fixing is described as typically imaginative but rarely creative, since one missing Matlab apostrophe took about 5-6 hours to find and 5 seconds to fix. The text claims AI can currently fake imagination but not creativity, though it sees no fundamental barrier.