Humans do that by inventing algorithms like AlphaGo :) In a more serious note, I think the person you are responding to meant "new" more in line with "novel".

Humans do that by inventing algorithms like AlphaGo :) In a more serious note, I think the person you are responding to meant "new" more in line with "novel". Take a microfluidic chip, for example. Current AI systems can create new flow cell geometry, but cannot come up with the idea for a microfluidic flow cell itself.