Keep in mind that it literally takes human beings years before they can perform basic intelligence tasks. I do agree that AI right now is too focused on pattern

Keep in mind that it literally takes human beings years before they can perform basic intelligence tasks. I do agree that AI right now is too focused on pattern matching from large data sets, but Deepmind has definitely been exploring other ways to think about memory or attention in artificial neural networks, and they tend to be more biologically inspired.