Some anthropologists suggest that our main evolutionary advantage was not so much our individual ability for reasoning, but our collective capacity to accumulat

Some anthropologists suggest that our main evolutionary advantage was not so much our individual ability for reasoning, but our collective capacity to accumulate, evolve and transmit cultural knowledge over the centuries and millennia. Skills like fire or language, for example, had a major influence in the development of our species and are mainly culturally transmitted: trying to reason your way into creating one or the other from scratch is a surprisingly difficult task. If that point of view is true, then it shouldn’t be surprising that a large part of what we consider human-like behaviours should be tractable simply by analysing large amounts of data. AI systems are not modelling cognition, but culture.