There's a fairly direct analogy to be made between this project and Averroes' idea of the universal intellect, which has roots in Aristotle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averroes%27s_theory_of_the_uni...

Averroes argues, as put by the historian of philosophy Peter Adamson, that "there is only one, single human capacity for human knowledge".[3] He calls it—using contemporary terminology—the "material intellect", which is one and the same for all human beings.[4] The intellect is eternal and continuously thinking about all that can be thought.[5] It uses faculties (e.g. the brain) of individual humans as a basis for its thinking process.[5] The process that happens in the human brain is called fikr by Averroes (known as cogitatio in Latin, often translated to "cogitation" in English), a process which contains not universal knowledge but "active consideration of particular things" that the person has encountered.[5] This use of human faculty explains why thinking can be an individual experience: if at one point the universal intellect is using one's brain to think about an object of thought, then that person is also experiencing the thinking.[5]

edit: I'm going to elaborate on this. In particular it's interesting to consider two kinds of knowledge -- the knowledge stored in ChatGPT's neural network, which is broad and "universal" and "timeless", and the knowledge of the individual agent's context, which is particular and local in both place and time. The "intellect" can't really do anything without being provided with a particular context in which to act.