Zero-shot Learning

An AI model's ability to perform tasks or recognize concepts it has never been specifically trained on, using its general knowledge to handle new situations. The model leverages patterns and relationships learned from its training data to make educated guesses about unfamiliar scenarios. It's like asking someone who has never seen a zebra to identify one after only describing it as 'a horse with black and white stripes' - they use their existing knowledge to understand the new concept. This capability is particularly impressive in large language models that can translate between languages they weren't explicitly trained on, or solve new types of problems by applying learned reasoning patterns.