>> This indicates how much is built in before any learning, a useful data point. Animals have a heck of a lot of background knowledge like that. Statistical ma

>> This indicates how much is built in before any learning, a useful data point. Animals have a heck of a lot of background knowledge like that. Statistical machine learning algorithms can't incorporate background knowledge [edit: not easily] and have to learn everything end-to-end. Hence why they remain dumb as bricks, compared to even simple animals (like insects, which are "simple" only compared to mammals, say).