This reminds me of the saying: It took me ten years to become an overnight success. Humans generalize well from few examples because, well, they've already pro

This reminds me of the saying: It took me ten years to become an overnight success. Humans generalize well from few examples because, well, they've already processed billions of examples. A toddler may have never seen an elephant before, but it may have seen cars, trucks, birds, dogs, people, trees, skies, buildings etc, giving it concepts for bigness, smallness, aliveness, humanness and much else. With all these concepts in place, then yes it becomes easy to see what makes an elephant distinct from a dog or a person. And it would be too for an artificial neural network. An interesting fact is that newborns have very few concepts to begin with. It takes some months for them for instance to learn to differentiate between alive and dead things (the family cat vs a teddy bear for instance).