Up until now, you were only really automating away the boring stuff.
Do not be fooled by GPT, it's a fancy Markov chain hooked up to training data. It cannot come up with anything that wasn't already in its data set.
“AlphaGo showed anomalies and moves from a broader perspective which professional Go players described as looking like mistakes at the first sight but an intentional strategy in hindsight.”
Doesn’t matter if the data was already there if a human overlooks it. It took an AI to do something that everyone thought was a mistake at first.
It's not even the ideas that are valuable, it's making them happen. I can think up tons of things, but lack the resources to make any of them happen.