I think AI are already creative. See this for neural networks creating psychedelic images: http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-incredible-day-dreams-of-artificial-

I think AI are already creative. See this for neural networks creating psychedelic images: http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-incredible-day-dreams-of-artificial-neura-1712226908 http://gizmodo.com/these-are-the-incredible-day-dreams-of-ar.... Perhaps you mean the initial spark of an invention, the idea which strikes like a lightning, and so on? But many inventions happen by accident (like the post-it note invention, http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/11/post-it-notes-were-invented-by-accident/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/11/post-it-note...). And then you could argument that only human are crazy enough to find novel usage for useless things. I don't know.