Humans receive an enormous amount of training data in forms not currently available to LLMs.
If you locked baby Einstein in a room with the collected works of humanity and left him there for a lifetime, I doubt he'd have even learnt to read on his own.
The greatest advantage you can have in life is a creative mind and I don't believe that is something that can be taught. It can be stomped out of you as a child, but it's not learnable.
Of course not, not any more than he’d learn to program a computer on his own.
Reading and writing are not natural skills. They are a technology that was invented by humans and they must be taught in some capacity. As we learn to read and write, parts of our brain related to language and other skills (which we do possess naturally) are co-opted to enable reading and writing, an unnatural skill.
Intelligence and language, however, are natural human abilities that we have evolved, likely over millions of years. Any parent will tell you this is obvious. It’s amazing how much children are able to infer and learn on their own.
There will be much value in automating the tedious and the routine.
Of course, that doesn't make for a great science fiction story. We first have to placate all these science fiction fantasies and in the process we will automate the tedious and the routine as a side effect of trying to figure out how many AGI can dance on the head of a pin.
Then human creativity will just be worth all the more.
Secondarily, I would expect this effect to be swamped by other factors (e.g. conquest).
All of the information accumulated by evolution gets passed through DNA. For humans, that's well under 1GB. Probably a very tiny fraction of that determines how the brain works at the algorithmic level. You should think of this information as the "software" of the brain, not pretrained LLM weights (350GB for GPT-3).
How much of that is cognitively useful for learning English? On top of the textual content, audio gives you emphasis and mood. Not a lot of information in that -- a few bits per sentence.
Better even measure in bytes. And remember that kids look at video, not at individual pictures (even if these are videos of pictures).