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There is some pretty strong evidence for this: all the toddlers in the world. You only need to show them something once and they'll immediately be able to recognize more examples of the same thing from different angles and even when it is partially hidden. All they have to guide them is the structure of their brains, not the quantity of data they have been exposed.

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"All they have to guide them is the structure of their brains, not the quantity of data they have been exposed."

A typical toddler (say 12 months' old) has spent 4000-5000 hours with open eyes. Even if you assume a low frame rate (10fps), resolution (1080p), and a 1000:1 compression ratio, that's still 1TB of training data.

Consider language acquisition:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_of_the_stimulus

Also, find me a 12 month old that can recognize an object after seeing it once.

Seems like this view gets told every once in a while by someone who clearly hasn't been around any 0-2 year olds.

This is HN, what did you expect? Real people with wife and kids?

Women are real people too.

Are you suggesting that women cannot have a wife and kids?

Try not to be an asshole. Thank you.

Your comment is hilariously wrong. Please do not make assumptions like this, you're typically going to be embarrassed.

Please show me a child that recognizes a new object after one look.

Shall I mail them to you?

Certainly not true.. reading takes ages for instance. Associating objects to words takes forever.. Perhaps this is true in another sense but in the sense i described.

Reading is a lot more complex than object recognition.

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