It is true that a young human (usually) starts with a ton of cultural knowledge that a young chimp doesn’t have.
It is also true that if you would try giving the cultural knowledge to the young chimp, they wouldn’t be able to process it.
Therefore, culture is important, but the genetic adaptation that makes culture possible is also important.
If the AI would get the ability to use human culture, after connecting to internet it would be able to use the human culture just like humans; maybe even better, because humans are usually limited to a few cultures and subcultures, while a sufficiently powerful AI could use them all.
Also, culture is essentially important because humans are mortal, and live relatively shortly compared with how much information they have available. (Imagine that you are an immortal vampire with perfect memory; how many years would it take you to become an expert at everything humans know and do, assuming that the rest of humankind remains frozen in the state of 2016?) Thus culture is the only way to go beyond the capacity of the individual. Also, some experiments get you killed, and culture is a way to get this knowledge. The AI with sufficiently great memory and processing speed would have less need for culture than humans do.
It is true that a young human (usually) starts with a ton of cultural knowledge that a young chimp doesn’t have.
It is also true that if you would try giving the cultural knowledge to the young chimp, they wouldn’t be able to process it.
Therefore, culture is important, but the genetic adaptation that makes culture possible is also important.
If the AI would get the ability to use human culture, after connecting to internet it would be able to use the human culture just like humans; maybe even better, because humans are usually limited to a few cultures and subcultures, while a sufficiently powerful AI could use them all.
Also, culture is essentially important because humans are mortal, and live relatively shortly compared with how much information they have available. (Imagine that you are an immortal vampire with perfect memory; how many years would it take you to become an expert at everything humans know and do, assuming that the rest of humankind remains frozen in the state of 2016?) Thus culture is the only way to go beyond the capacity of the individual. Also, some experiments get you killed, and culture is a way to get this knowledge. The AI with sufficiently great memory and processing speed would have less need for culture than humans do.