You could say exactly the same about humans. Ex nihilo nihil fit. Every human depends on a vast corpus of prior human knowledge to be able to accomplish anything. This doesn't mean they have no intelligence.
replyThis is dumb.
replyAt the margin the innovative human matters.
What that means for the rest of society is TBD.
At the margin innovation is just taking the obvious next step first.
replySays the person whose never produced a novel thought in his life!
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