humans discover a lot of things by trial and error (aka what I meant by "invent knowledge")

basically everything Benjamin Franklin did was trial and error because no-one understood what electricity was in the slightest

almost everything Edison did was trial and error too, he had his lab try thousands of materials for his long lasting lightbulb filament

even the most advanced "AI" today is just machine-learning going through everything already known trying to piece together previously discovered facts, admittedly at levels and detail impossible by human hands

but that means there are limits and it's not really "AI"