Thanks, you stimulate a further thought. Isn't mimicry the technique Nvidia and Tesla use to teach cars how to drive? I admit there is more in human intelligence than this, but while creativity is a practical search for random events that don't fit, or require alteration in our thinking to see how they do indeed fit in a different context, morality is a whole other category. We will never fully be secure in exploiting AI to its fullest in general intelligence until we have, by example, convinced these machines we will ethically treat their consciousness with respect as we expect them to do for our consciousness. A golden rule of robotics Asimov probably anticipated. There are some bad signs in the recently linked video of our military teaching drones how to swarm. Military applications should be banned under a universal treaty asap, but the cat is already out and propagating.
I have suggested elsewhere we have lots of philosophers with ethical concerns machines might emulate. In the bowdlerized version I remember from my first father-in-laws Sunday dinner harangues on Kant, something like this might be helpful: "if you face an ethical dilemma, try to act in accordance with a rule anyone faced with similar circumstances would use for guidance."
Unlike you creative types, "extinguished" professors like myself merely have good memories. Perhaps that's why I'm overly impressed with machine intelligence.