https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/16/1010566/ai-machine-learning-with-tiny-data/
Artificial intelligence/Machine learning
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
“Less than one”-shot learning can teach a model to identify more objects than the number of examples it is trained on.
by Karen Hao archive page
October 16, 2020
“Machine learning typically requires tons of examples…. children sometimes don’t need any examples to identify something…. AI models should also be able to do this… In other words, an AI model should be able to accurately recognize more objects than the number of examples it was trained on. That could be a big deal for a field that has grown increasingly expensive and inaccessible as the data sets used become ever larger.”