[YeGoblynQueenne]

>> Our artificial neural networks are just as complex though.

I don't know about that. I think it depends on how you count the complexity of a model. There's three cases: a) insects are less complex than machine learning models, b) both are equally complex, c) insects are simpler.

If (b) or (c) is the case then we're shafted, because we're failing to reproduce insect behaviour despite building systems at least as complex as theirs. If (c) is the case, we're particularly screwed because it means we're missing a simple, more efficient way to do things.

If (a) is the case then we may have a hope to get to where insects are in terms of complexity and possibly reproduce their behaviour. Still, there's the issue of combining models to perform well at a broad range of tasks, which is far from solved.