The alternate uses test (AUT) is an experiment which gives a participant an everyday object, such as a brick or a paperclip, and asks them to generate as many alternative uses as they can. The test is considered by cognitive psychologists to be associated with divergent thinking and creativity. A number of recently-released large language models are given the alternate uses test, and their performance measured against human performance.
This folder contains the code used in this study; the tex subdirectory contains a writeup of the results.