Why Meta-learning is Crucial for Further Advances of Artificial Intelligence?

This article is extended version of the presentation I gave at General AI Challenge kick off meetup organized by GoodAI and MLMU. First of all, I have to explain what a meta-learning is good for. The term meta-learning has many definitions and meanings. As you can see the meta-learning is relevant for the first objective of the challenge which is developing AI with gradual learning capabilities. One of the main direction in meta-learning is having a meta level system utilizing a Knowledge Repository.