Agreed. There are already those who can “churn out” Shakespeare or Mozart-like “product.”

Here’s an amusing example.

I think it would be very cool if someone got serious about doing this — a historical cycle concerning World War II, the Tragedy of President Nixon, etc. — but in today’s world it wouldn’t take a “Shakespeare” to create new Shakespeare plays. A path is a lot easier to follow than to create.

Not only does it denigrate the achievements of actual geniuses (however they attained their abilities), it significantly lowers the bar measuring “genius” at all.

I think a better measure might be whether or not such a putatative technology recipient was able to master the achievements of preceeding geniuses and demonstrably contribute some advancement of their standard.

Virtually anyone being able to mimic Mozart or Wren certainly ought to be a desirable technologic mechanism for our species to develop I think, but equating that with the creation of something actually new or previously unattainable prior to the particular individual’s contribution are two significantly different propositions I submit.

DARPA is making progress on accelerating learning. Doubling the speed to develop task expertise.

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