Just read that some AI can now learn from just a few examples, like a kid does

I was reading a research paper from a university in Toronto last night. It said some new models can learn a new task from just one or two examples, which they call 'few-shot learning'. I always thought AI needed thousands of data points for anything. It's wild to think it's getting closer to how people learn. Has anyone else seen this kind of thing in their work?

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the_ivan3d ago

You know what's funny about that? I was trying to teach my nephew how to skip a rock last weekend and it took him like twenty tries to get it right. So maybe the AI is already smarter than a six year old. But seriously, it does make you wonder if they're just getting better at finding patterns we already made, or if it's real learning. That Toronto paper sounds like a big jump from the old way of doing things.

cole_lee93d ago

Wait, your nephew got it in twenty tries? That's actually pretty good... took me way longer as a kid. Makes you think the AI might just be copying us really well, not really learning like a person does. That Toronto thing is still wild though.