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Sure, but they're not being explicitly trained to do anything. It just happens because that's what children do. Also, you don't have to label their cat experiences to identify them from the other millions of experiences they have in a day. You don't need to, they just figure it out without even realizing it.

That's pretty great.

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Sure, but at some point you do label "This is our cat Tabby. He lives here." Now every time they see a cat in the house, it is implicitly labelled. I'm definitely disagreeing with "extensive" more than "explicit" in the original quote, but I think it's silly to differentiate explicit vs implicit when talking about a human vs computer

How do you know it's the same cat? A neural network needs to be explicitly told, "these are all the same cat".

Not necessarily: https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/16/16483542/google-photos-r...

This article says that google photos’ model can still have trouble telling your pets apart if you have the same breed - it kind of disproves your point. The model needs to be explicitly told which cat is which. That said, I’m pretty sure a toddler would probably need to be told which is which too.

Don't forget humans don't just see pictures - they see a video upon which they are learning.

Micro-movements of cat body parts and their more general character traits could be the only hint that separates two supposedly same cats.

Yes, and toddlers (my 14 month old...) can see a cat in a picture, and recognize a cat in real life, even if it's different color.

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