What's the purpose of humanity if machines can learn ingenuity?

What's the purpose of humanity if machines can learn ingenuity? The value placed on creativity in modern times has led to a range of writers and thinkers trying to articulate what it is, how to stimulate it, and why it is important. It was while sitting on a committee at the Royal Society assessing what impact machine learning was likely to have on society in the coming decades that I first encountered the theories of Margaret Boden. Her ideas struck me as the most relevant when it came to addressing creativity in machines. Boden is an original thinker who has managed to fuse many disciplines: philosopher, psychologist, physician, AI expert and cognitive scientist. In her eighties now, with white hair flying like sparks and an ever active brain, she is enjoying engaging enthusiastically with the prospect of what these "tin cans", as she likes to call computers, might be capable of. To this end, she has identified three different types of human creativity.Exploratory creativity involves taking what is there and exploring its outer edges, extending the limits of what is possible while remaining bound by the rules.