N-Shot Learning: Learning More with Less Data

If AI is the new electricity, then data is the new coal. Rapid growth of artificial intelligence and deep learning has the ability to impact countless lives and change the world in ways that, until now, were only dreamed of in comic books. Unfortunately, just as we've seen a hazardous depletion in the amount of available coal, many AI applications have little or no data accessible to them. New technology has made up for a lack of physical resources; likewise, new techniques are needed to allow applications with little data to perform satisfactorily. This is the issue at the heart of what is becoming a very popular field: N-shot Learning. You may be asking, what the heck is a shot, anyway? Fair question.A shot is nothing more than a single example available for training, so in N-shot learning, we have N examples for training.