>Unsupervised learning is the dark matter of AI, as LeCun said. We cannot rely on labeled data, which is expensive and scarce. This sounds very extreme to me.

>Unsupervised learning is the dark matter of AI, as LeCun said. We cannot rely on labeled data, which is expensive and scarce. This sounds very extreme to me. Sure, unsupervised learning is already bearing fruit (most obviously in NLP) but there are domains where labeled data is unlikely to disappear soon - in many cases semi-supervised learning is a more reasonable goal which will reduce the need for labeling (or labeling-related tasks). >The first company to figure out how to leverage the massive unlabeled data that is available will win the AI arms race. This is an even stronger claim. Why are you so sure only one actor will be able to leverage it? Yes, it will be a huge boon but claiming that the first to crack it will 'win' seems very farfetched.