| What you describe is the difficulty to be creative. You need to try a lot of things and it takes time. It's the same now than it was then. What's changed is that, with the same creative power, as an individual, you could do more then. You can carve a wheel alone in the wood. It's hard, but as a single individual with only natural resources, you can. A kid in china, or a grandpa in west africa can do it. To code a revolutionary AI today, you need a lot of per-requisites: electricity, computer, internet, access to knowledge, education and a looooooot of time to practice. Even if you are the most creative person in the world, from all centuries included. You can't do it in the wood. You will not see somebody in Mali do it. A kid is unlikely to be able to do it. Because being capable of creative the concept in your head is not enough. The stuff you could do with what anybody had at hand is gone. |