> Humans can use existing knowledge and apply it to new scenarios, and so can most AI

Doesn't the article states that this is not true? AI cannot apply to B what it learned about A.

Well, ChatGPT knows about the 90s Balkan wars, a topic to which LWT hasn't made an episode that I'm aware of, and yet I can ask it to write a script for a Balkan wars episode that reads surprisingly like John Oliver while being reasonably correct.

	▲	epolanski 5 months ago \| parent [-]
		Essentially Carmack pointed in the slides that teaching AI to play game a, b or c didn't improve AI at all at learning game d from scratch. That's essentially what we're looking for when we talk about general intelligence, the capability to adapting what we know to what we know nothing about.