Actually, recalling my argument in more detail I take back my agreement. The parent's point is that a child will be about to recognize big cats as cats, but dog

Actually, recalling my argument in more detail I take back my agreement. The parent's point is that a child will be about to recognize big cats as cats, but dogs as not cats. My point was that as a child, this was not true. In addition, NNs can reliably be trained to recognize housecats vs. not-housecat in 1000 images.