It’s not really fair to have a dog labelled as a Japanese spaniel (that is one) and let a a deep neural network train on a bunch of images of Japanese spaniels for a week, then have me try to identify the dog when I’ve never heard of or seen a Japanese spaniel before or heard or read about them so I guess papillon, then you tell me the CNN is “superior”.

If you consolidated all dog classes into “dog” humans wouldn’t get a single one wrong. Also, if you took an intelligent person and let them study and train on these classes with flashcards for as many training iterations as the CNN has during training, I imagine the human would perform at least comparably if not better than the CNN but that usually is not how the test is performed.