Next time you hear somebody saying that artificial intelligence is flawed because it requires millions of examples to learn anything while humans only need very few, resist the urge of kicking them in the teeth and show them this list instead.

List of things that humans cannot learn with a few examples/trials

Learning to play the guitar like Jimi Hendrix
Learning to design like Antoni Gaudí
Learning to sculpt like Michelangelo
Learning to write songs like John Lennon
Learning to think like Socrates
Learning to lead like Julius Caesar
Learning to climb like Chris Sharma
Learning to ride the skateboard like Tony Hawk
Learning to play tennis like Roger Federer
Learning to play DotA2 like Johan “N0tail” Sundstein
Learning to shoot like Simo Häyhä
Learning to direct movies like Steven Spielberg
Learning to play League of Legends like Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok
Learning to play Counterstrike like Nicolai “dev1ce” Reedtz
Learning to play soccer like Diego Maradona
Learning to play the piano like Sergey Rachmaninov
Learning to write programs like Donald Knuth
Learning to play the drums like Neil Peart
Learning to play go like Lee Sedol
Learning to fly an airplane like Manfred von Richthofen
Learning to play golf like Tiger Woods
Learning to write like William Shakespeare
Learning to talk like Protagoras
Learning to play baseball like Babe Ruth
Learning to dance like Michael Jackson
Learning to sing like Frank Sinatra
Learning to paint like Pablo Picasso
Learning to play ping pong like Ma Long
Learning to cook like Alain Ducasse
Learning to play Starcraft2 like Sung Choo “Maru” Cho
Learning to conquer like Genghis Khan
Learning to swim like Michael Phelps
Learning to hike like Jerzy Kukuczka
Learning to drive a race car like Michael Schumacher
Learning to trade like Warren Buffet
Learning to play volleyball like Regla Torres
Learning to perform magic tricks like Harry Houdini
Learning to prove theorems like Srinivasa Ramanujan
Learning to play chess like Garry Kasparov
Learning to cycle like Eddy Merckx
Learning to invent like Galileo Galilei
Learning to entrepreneur like Jack Ma
Learning to design video games like Hideo Kojima
Learning to compose music like Johann Bach
Learning to act like Robert de Niro
Learning to ride a race motorbike like Valentino Rossi
Learning to revolutionize human knowledge like John von Neumann
Learning to draw like Walt Disney
Learning to run like Usain Bolt
Learning to kung fu like Yip Man

These 50 people were among the best, if not the best, of their respective fields. I am sure you realize this list could be much longer, but I hope it gets the point across. Sure, there are many things that humans can learn quickly and easily compared to current artificial intelligence systems, but not recognizing the importance of a lifetime’s worth of experiences and millions of years of evolution is just silly.

PS: I apologize that there are very few women/blacks in this list. This is a reflection of my own ignorance, and not a denial of the unquestionable contributions women/blacks brought to humankind. If you are particularly bothered by this, contact me and provide a few examples you would like to be included.