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If course it will, probably faster than humans, we (both human and AI) don't create new ideas, we take existing ideas and smash them together internally to create something we think is novel..

The size of the data sets is not so different, humans take millions of examples within millions of examples over decades from birth to produce anything of substance.

Alpha-Zero trained on its own generated data. It turned out that disregarding human data allowed it to become unbeatable in its domain (Go).

I would point out that this exact process (AI training against AI) produced novel and counter-intuitive insights in chess, go, poker, and other games that would have been labelled creative and brilliant if a human had come up with them and used them to win.