[m0zg]

Actually, I don't think this is strictly speaking accurate. In order to train from those dozens/hundreds of samples, human brain needs to first be developed enough by accumulating experience from billions of samples in related domains. This "pre-training" process literally takes years, and it still does not sufficiently prepare some people for some tasks.

[sbov]

I just think machines are good at some things, and people are good at others. If it really took billions of samples in related domains we wouldn't develop nearly as fast as we do after being born.

[m0zg]

I'm not sure I'd call it "fast" either. For the first three months babies can barely see anything, and for at least nine they can't form anything even remotely resembling speech and can't walk. What's amazing is that all this learning is very sparsely supervised and all "subsystems" train at the same time.

[pdimitar]

This is a human peculiarity. Many animal babies are born with fully developed abilities. I am sure we have all seen the NatGeo videos of antelope babies stumbling 2-3 times and then immediately start walking and even running.

Human babies have bigger head-to-body ratio compared to all other species due to our brain being bigger. Our babies have to be born earlier or otherwise they cannot make it out of the mother alive.

Outside of that, we develop pretty quickly. As you pointed out, everything in us is developing in parallel which is quite impressive.

[kkarakk]

i think it's important to note when people talk about machines vs people they always think about ideal machine vs ideal person - a rigorously educated athletic genius that can infer links between things with a couple of hours of study at most & infer future results of actions with a couple of seconds of thought.

most people aren't like this but on average engineers who are truly innovatively thinking about these problems and creating solutions are. it is just the way it is