To quantify this a little, the human sensory system has been estimated to generate on the order of 11m bits per second of data. So 1-2 megabytes a second for mo

To quantify this a little, the human sensory system has been estimated to generate on the order of 11m bits per second of data. So 1-2 megabytes a second for most of your life. That’s probably in the region of a day of YouTube. But it’s clear that a lot of human cognition is directed towards novelty, and humans are able to run experiments interactively, not just consume data (see schemas in child development etc). So, you take your baby AI and instead of training it just on a static corpus, you put it in a simulator. And then when you again hit a wall where you conclude data is the problem, you give them a robot body and plug them into the internet bidirectionally. Some would argue this would be a mistake.