Real world experience can help, but what we have now is also too stupid to recognize when it’s succeeding or failing. It just greedily gobbles up inputs and feedback indiscriminately.
There’s currently no way to know if the necessary advancement, to advance independently of humans, is 2 years and 2000 years away.
Even so, nature tells us that advancement probably isn’t coming at all. It’s not needed, so long as there are billions of humans available to partner with.
Those are all a signs of a curious mind, which is a big plus. There’s also signs of not being a team player, and my job is to build a team.
So it all depends how the candidate communicates themselves.
The sweet spot is finding a new team member who is sure they’ll convince my team to change tools, but is committed to embracing our current tools until they win over the rest of the team.