AlphaZero learned to play chess via self-play, not by reading books about chess.
Why couldn't the same happen for art for example?
For coding, won't a sufficiently advanced neural net be able to figure out how to use a programming language when given just the documentation?
And when most of our interactions are with AI, it will learn from our conversations with it. Asking some AI system why feature X was removed from programming language Y in version Z teaches it something. The next person who asks it which feature was removed from Y in version Z might be told "X". Without the AI system ever having to read about it. The interaction with AI could become a self-learning loop in and on itself.