Learning isn't a 'static' ability, but one which continuously changes: You must learn how to learn, and the way you learn changes. The new-born child can only learn by first-hand experience, and hardly generalize. But the older the child gets, the more he/she can learn without having experienced a corresponding situation.
Indeed, most of what you know is what you were taught by others, read in books, etc. This probably is the main advantage of man over all other animals: that we can pass on knowledge, so that the next generation doesn't have to make the same mistakes again (it does anyway, but that's a different problem ...).
Your knowledge includes the first-hand experiences of hundreds of thousands of people, whose knowledge and experiences were collected and put into a structured form, in order to make learning these facts easier.
People nowadays aren't more intelligent than 1000 years ago, but we have more knowledge, and thus can achieve far higher goals. Like Newton said: "I am a dwarf, but I can see very far for I am standing on the shoulders of giants"
But what effects does this have on AI? The brain changes, and not only does its knowledge change, but also the way it accumulates knowledge and makes use of it. An artificial intelligence must be able to change its own programme.
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