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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

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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.

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