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2+. A child I know only ever saw plush/Lego/picture elephants, yet on the first trip to the zoo, pointed at a live one and exclaimed triumphantly: "'phant!!!"

• AndrewKemendo 9y ago
  Right, and those exposures were probably good enough for several hundred thousand iterations of "training."
  • icc97 9y ago
    Plus as the child walks around the elephant in the zoo there's a ton of information. Just one of the angles that the child sees has to match the 3D object that they've been picking up and moving around in their hands.
    • AndrewKemendo 9y ago
      Correct. It's spatial intelligence.
  • mannykannot 9y ago
    This thread now contains a cycle. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15610149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15610149