[Eesais2e]

> Humans simply don't need that, which must be some indication that what we're doing isn't quite right.

Not really. DNNs are much simpler and need to be much more specialized towards specific tasks than the human brain. They're more like a nematode that was optimized by evolution for millions of years to tell cats and dogs apart because it preferentially infects dogs. It's the only thing it does. It does it via some shortcuts and it won't be able to learn chess without a radical redesign.

Not to mention that primate brains take some time to get bootstrapped. A toddler has to be fed visual input for many months before they can be left unsupervised for reasonable amounts of time. And have you seen what those "optical illusion" things do? It's a miracle that those humans can self-navigate at all considering those failure modes!