>deep learning systems are at least an order of magnitude less data efficient than the systems they hope to replicate. While true on the surface, you have to a

>deep learning systems are at least an order of magnitude less data efficient than the systems they hope to replicate. While true on the surface, you have to also consider that there is a vast quantity of training data expressed in our DNA. Our 'self' is a conscious thought, sure, but it's also unconscious action and instinct, all of which is indirect lived experience of our forebear organisms. The ones that had a slightly better twitch response to the feel of an insect crawling on their arm were able to survive the incident, etc. Our 'lizard brains' are the result of the largest set of training data we could possibly imagine - the evolutionary history of life on earth.