Whatever your opinions on what "intelligence" really is and the role of "imagination" in producing it, I can assure you that many computer scientists would like

Whatever your opinions on what "intelligence" really is and the role of "imagination" in producing it, I can assure you that many computer scientists would like to replicate human creativity, heuristics, and problem solving techniques. Many of the early AI pioneers were as interested in understanding human thought and understanding machine thought (source: conversations with some of them). Modern techniques simply have a different aim.