To be neuroscience nitpicky: recognizing faces and other complex visual objects is beyond the *primary* sensory cortex; they are the realm of higher-order visual areas such as fusiform face area. Playing AlphaGo isn't what primary sensory cortical areas can do either.https://twitter.com/GaryMarcus/status/1003650204929871872 …
Though there are some pretty serious problems with the robustness of DNN object recognition, as the adversarial literature shows, and I’ve yet to see Alpha* demonstrate any transfer (eg to different sized board or variant with different rules), as a human would s/he mastered Go.
