Surely it's because this is an aspect of intelligence? Being able to generalize an image is like being able to summarize a text. It reduces something individuat

Surely it's because this is an aspect of intelligence? Being able to generalize an image is like being able to summarize a text. It reduces something individuated and complex to a set of shared properties. So the Why seems self-evident to me: if you want to understand intelligence, try to make machines do intelligent things. That's not to say I think that approach will necessarily lead to a system capable of general intelligence. But I'm assuming that is their current approach.