That won't work, the pigeon will stop playing. But a pigeon will recognize paintings by a certain painter, or steer a missile to a target. Relative to the state

That won't work, the pigeon will stop playing. But a pigeon will recognize paintings by a certain painter, or steer a missile to a target. Relative to the state of the art in machine learning pigeons are fairly sophisticated, so it means little to claim that a pigeon might learn to do something.