AI Can Now Recognize Objects After Seeing Just One Example

Advances in machine learning and deep learning systems are bring us much closer to developing true artificial intelligence (AI) than ever before. One major limitation to these systems, though, is the effort required to teach them, with most requiring thousands or even hundreds of thousands of examples before they can "learn" something new. Self-driving car systems absorb miles of traffic data to learn basic driving lessons, and this scary image generator had to be fed 200,000 images for it to recognize a normal face. However, a new development from the team at Google DeepMind may be the start of leveling out that steep learning curve for AI systems. To speed up the learning process, Google DeepMind researcher Oriol Vinyals added a memory component to a deep-learning system.