Parent is talking about how much data the model needs for training. You are comparing that to how much data a human needs for inference. Human training data ne

Parent is talking about how much data the model needs for training. You are comparing that to how much data a human needs for inference. Human training data needs are quite high - several years of learning. Look up few-shot learning if you want a more fair comparison for tasks like telling apart a cat and a hot dog given a few examples.