The hard thing to emulate is that people quickly become aware that they are looking at an illusion. Even though you can't turn your perception off, Escher's infinite staircase doesn't actually trick you into thinking a set of stairs can go in a closed loop.

It fools humans only at the first glance. A few seconds later we make a correct assessement.

Typical CNNs miss this second stage.

And the humor of the images comes from our initial expectations and how different they are from our actual understanding of what we're seeing.

I think because the human world is made for humans there’s a lot of value in an AI with similar failure modes to humans. Right now AI can do a good job of learning to classify images, but fails in ways that are entirely foreign to us

We can use our understanding of how the world usually is and plausibly might be to get us out of local minima.