[jjeaff]

After spending some time working with machine learning and AI, the early development of the human brain is just fascinating to me.

With our best algorithms, you have to feed thousands and thousands of images for ML to be able to identify things like a certain type of animal.

And yet, my 14 month old can see a cartoon drawing of a penguin in her books a few times and then days later, recognize an actual photo of a penguin from a completely different source.

The human brain, even on an infant level is just so spectacularly amazing.

[ativzzz]

You also have to remember that our brains have millions of years of evolution to learn from, so we have had far more than thousands and thousands of images and other perceptions recognized by the DNA of our ancestors, which gets passed down to us.

[jjeaff]

Yes, but that's the programming. There aren't any penguin references in the DNA that we know of yet.