[ithkuil]

Yeah, your brain has been pre-trained over an incredibly long evolutionary period to be able to learn stuff efficiently.

We may eventually build machines that are able to do that, but it may well take us enormous amounts of "brute force" training in order to produce something that then no longer uses brute force to learn further.

As an analogy, look at the history of CPU design. The first CPUs have been designed manually, even "drawn" manually. Each generation of CPUs empowered engineers of the future generation to build more complex tasks because they could tap the computation power to assist them in the design and realization of the circuits.

Development is incremental.

Yes, sometimes you can come up with some new groundbreaking idea that will invalidate what's currently being worked on, but usually these ground breaking ideas come up later when the ground is fertile because you already live in the next generation.