AI computes, humans think. When humans think, they ask questions because they are curious. AI only works with what they have and asks for no more.
Thus far, this is significant. AI only does things because we tell it to. It has no desire to create, or to improve itself, or to advance the state of the art.
Will this change? I don't know. I don't presently see how it really could -- we could program AI to simulate wanting to improve, but is that the same? It's still us initiating it. It will be interesting to see what develops.