"ability to evaluate and make nearly instant judgments in unique circumstances without prior training" It could be argued that there are already ML systems tha

"ability to evaluate and make nearly instant judgments in unique circumstances without prior training" It could be argued that there are already ML systems that do what you describe (i.e. make instant effective judgements/decisions about something it hasn't been exposed to during training), at least for some contexts. For more information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-shot_learning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-shot_learning