For whatever reason associative memory has not been integrated with deep learning yet. The result is current AI only has the shortest of short term memory. Which is fine for Go because the current pattern on the board is all that matters. It is not fine when the game requires temporal strategy.
Anyway I don't think the situation for humans is so rosy. Dawkins says the watchmaker is blind. There are suggestions that evolution need not be so impaired:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/artificial-general-intelligence/4aKEE0gGGoA
https://discourse.numenta.org/t/does-brain-has-random-projection-machanism/1812/8
Well, that is only a hobby fun viewpoint. Up to you if you buy into it or not.