I'm not sure how to quantify how quickly or well humans learn in-context (if you know of any work on this I'd love to read it!)
In general, there is too much fluff and confusion floating around about what these models are and are not capable of (regardless of the training mechanism.) I think more people need to read Song Mei's lovely slides[1] and related work by others. These slides are the best exposition I've found of neat ideas around ICL that researchers have been aware of for a while.
In general, there is too much fluff and confusion floating around about what these models are and are not capable of (regardless of the training mechanism.) I think more people need to read Song Mei's lovely slides[1] and related work by others. These slides are the best exposition I've found of neat ideas around ICL that researchers have been aware of for a while.
[1] https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~songmei/Presentation/Algorith...