AI learning: will machines acquire knowledge as naturally as children do?

Watching a child learn is an extraordinary experience. As a proud dad, it delights and inspires me, and as an artificial intelligence (AI) professional, it reminds me that our journey into machine learning (ML) has only just begun. What is particularly incredible about babies and young children, of course, is that they learn incredibly quickly – drawing on building blocks of information and astounding us by picking things up naturally and incrementally. Is that too much to ask of machines? For now, the answer is yes.