> 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.