I readily agree that it's not the best design, and that it will have a hard time figuring out things that are not in its corpus. But reinforcement learning is a

I readily agree that it's not the best design, and that it will have a hard time figuring out things that are not in its corpus. But reinforcement learning is also unlike human learning, and may possibly be better at fitting data into a world model without requiring reflective attention and prediction the way human learning does.