This goes back to the root of what creativity really is. Some say creative people don't have anything special in their "brains". They are just able to mix match

This goes back to the root of what creativity really is. Some say creative people don't have anything special in their "brains". They are just able to mix match stuff they already know in different ways, that others didn't consider. In essence there is no such thing as extrapolation for the human mind. We only interpolate in new ways. We can only remix what we know, and with that generate something new. How do we actually get new, non-interpolated stuff? By going out into the world and doing things with it. Collecting new data. Experiments, experiencing things, seeing new stuff, reading about new stuff. That's not so different from the AI. Our brain is not something magical that works in mysterious un-replicable ways. Much of AI field has been in fact trying to replicate how we learn, and how our brain works.