Re:“Less than one”-shot learning
by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:09AM
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But those 60 images per second are the same static, unchanging caricature. It makes more sense to say that the child sees the same image multiple times than to say she sees multiple images.
So how does the child learn to recognise a fully 3-dimensional real-life horse from a single caricature of a horse seen any number of times? Can you explain?
Also, if you were to train a nerual net with a single insance of a caricature of a horse, even if you copied it a million times to create an example set of a million copies, the neural net would still only be able to elarn how to recognise that particular caricature, if that- it would certainly not be able to extract any useful features to recognise real-life horses from that single caricature.
The way the chain of connection goes from the eye through the brain is like a tree, and when a child "sees" a horse, a number of those pathways are being activated, some of which are more general, and some of which are specific.
> which is a single image of a horse,
Although it may be a "single" image in the sense that is a single file on disk or a single printed image, a child is not seeing a single image. They are seeing a rushing river of horses, even if from just that 1 static image. Think of the 60hz refresh rate of your monitor. A child is seeing at least 60 "images per second", and likely many, many times more.