> You and I have never seen even 100,000 photos in our lives. Well, maybe the video stream from our eyes is a little different. But it's not a billion fundament

> You and I have never seen even 100,000 photos in our lives. Well, maybe the video stream from our eyes is a little different. But it's not a billion fundamentally different images. I would argue precisely the opposite (as you alude to), it's more than 100s of billions of fundamentally (what does this even mean?) different images. Calculate the frequency at which your eyes sample, think of the times the angle changes (new images), multiple by your age, multiple by 2 for two eyes looking slightly different directions, factor in your the noise your brain has in forming the image "in your head" because you drank too much... you can continue adding factors (hours of "TV" watched on average) add-naseum. It seems that "slow to learn" has a "real" target/bound, what humans are capable of. If it takes Bob Ross decades to paint all the "images" in his head, then maybe we should go easy on the algorithims?