I'm certain we'll see AI which is smart enough to replace a lot of tasks which humans currently perform. For example paralegal work, medical diagnosis, logistic

I'm certain we'll see AI which is smart enough to replace a lot of tasks which humans currently perform. For example paralegal work, medical diagnosis, logistics solving for cargo and military applications etc. What I cannot wrap my head around though is at what point AI will reach a level where it can have that 'Eureka!' moment and come up with a novel concept like humans do. Humans are governed by an array of emotions and evolved behaviours which work in tandem. For example depression or recklessness are both pretty negative and debilitating. One might expect they'd be evolved out of the species. Depression however can be useful in that it causes us to evaluate the reasons behind our depression and (hopefully) strive to change them. Recklessness can cause us to throw caution to the wind and shoot for the stars - make that move abroad or sell everything and setup a new company. I think that AI will rapidly reach a level where it is self aware enough to demonstrate human behaviour like self-preservation or even harbour malignant feelings towards us and some of our behaviours (environmental damage, torture etc.). But whether it will posess that yearning curiosity which causes humans to strive for self improvement, to look to the stars or deep within the atom, I don't know if we'll see that anytime soon.