I think you are greatly overestimating what deep learning can do. In the 90s, we could recognise digits accurately. Now we can do the same with traffic signs even in bad weather etc. That is exactly the kind of progress that we have made in 14 years. And let's not forget this is a manually tuned algorithm for a particular problem.

It's great progress, but it is also a far cry from what humans can do and there is no clear path at all to get there - currently.