The Rise of Meta Learning

Meta-Learning describes the abstraction to designing higher level components associated with training Deep Neural Networks. The term "Meta-Learning" is thrown around in Deep Learning literature frequently referencing "AutoML", "Few-Shot Learning", or "Neural Architecture Search" when in reference to the automated design of neural network architectures. Emerging from comically titled papers such as "Learning to learn by gradient descent by gradient descent", the success of OpenAI's rubik's cube robotic hand demonstrates the maturity of the idea. Meta-Learning is the most promising paradigm to advance the state-of-the-art of Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence. OpenAI set the AI world on fire by demonstrating ground-breaking capabilities of a robotic hand trained with Reinforcement Learning.