It’s amazing how quickly chicks learn to recognize moving objects – and now, artificial intelligence can do the same.
By Jeremy Hsu

It turns out that AI has vision capabilities similar to the vision abilities of newborn chicks
Lalit Pandey, Samantha M. W. Wood, Justin N.Wood
Researchers are finding that artificial intelligence may be able to learn from minimal amounts of data as efficiently as newly hatched chicks do.
Right after they hatch, most birds quickly learn to identify and follow the first moving object they see, which is called imprinting. This process helps them stay near a parent and offers protection in the wild. Researchers wanted…
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