With due respect I do not think you're tackling the fundamental issue, which I do not think is particularly controversial: intelligence and knowledge are distinct things, with the latter created by the former. What we're aiming to do is to create an intelligent system, a system that can create fundamentally new knowledge, and not simply reproduce or remix it on demand.

The next time your in the wilds, it's quite amazing to consider that your ancestors - millennia past, would have looked at, more or less, these exact same wilds but with so much less knowledge. Yet nonetheless they would discover such knowledge - teaching themselves, and ourselves, to build rockets, put a man on the Moon, unlock the secrets of the atom, and so much more. All from zero.

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What your example and elaboration focus on is the nature of intelligence, and the difficulty in replicating it. And I agree. This is precisely we want to avoid making the problem infinitely more difficult, costly, and time consuming by dumping endless amounts of knowledge in the equation.