I don't think this is quite correct. Current AIs can consume two difference concepts that have never been combined, and then combine them semi-coherently. That

I don't think this is quite correct. Current AIs can consume two difference concepts that have never been combined, and then combine them semi-coherently. That would be considered somewhat novel if a human did it. I'm also not convinced that "new ideas" are not also just statistical reasoning, so it too could fall to AI advancement.