[Shorel]

Some pattern recognition seems to be innate, for example chicks just hours old can recognize the shadow of a flying bird as either harmless (long neck short tail) or a predator (short neck long tail).

So, while this pattern in particular doesn't apply to humans (it really doesn't?), many animals have ready-to-use pattern recognition when they are just hours or days old.

[mcv]

Those are instincts bred by evolutionary because they're vital for survival. Recognising an elephant is not the same thing for us. Instead, we get a generic toolbox for quickly learning to recognise very different objects, from animals to machines to abstract shapes. We're not born being able to recognise them, but we can pick them up very quickly from even rough descriptions.

[Shorel]

True, but if we are into exploring the possibilities of what can be done with artificial neural networks, I see no reason to limit our models to human brains only.