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>Does a child need to look at billions of images to figure out what a chair or cat is?

Of course! Not exclusively images of cats or chairs, but children have absolutely seen billions of images by the time they start to exhibit discernibly human-level intelligence.

[kotach]

assuming you see an image every 400ms which is given blinking and activation of neural pathways a good approximation. Billion images per that rate is equivalent to 12 years of never stopping to watch

there have been systems that learned to generalize after seeing couple of examples not thousands (digit recognition)

child can see just one animal and label it as a monkey, an algorithm could probably do the same with more algorithmic machinery, but we are still not there