No denial at this point, AI could produce something novel, and they will be doing more of this moving forward.
I mean, I can run a pseudo random number generator, and produce something novel too.
Is this novel? It's new. But we already know AI can generate new things, any statistical reassembly of any content will generate new things.
It's not to downplay this, but it's unclear what "novel" means here or what you think the implications are.
Not sure if AI can have clever or new ideas, it still seems to be it combines existing knowledge and executes algoritms.
I am not necessarily saying humans do something different either, but I have yet to see a novel solution from an AI that is not simply an extrapolation of current knowledge.