[TheOtherHobbes]

Humans = Instinct + Collective Learning

There isn't a human alive who hasn't been taught most of what they know by other humans.

In the West we dedicate the first couple of decades of human life to this, with extensions for gifted individuals who are better at learning than the average.

Expecting an AI to understand the world on its own without formal teaching is equivalent to expecting an AI to recapitulate the entirety of human intellectual development within the span of a single research program.

It may be a realistic expectation at some point in the future, but it's certainly not realistic right now.

[taneq]

> There isn't a human alive who hasn't been taught most of what they know by other humans.

This was my first thought. Self-taught humans aren't that great at dealing with the real world either, so expecting self-taught computers to be awesome at it seems a little unfair.