I used to think ML was missing the ability to formulate abstractions until I read about autoencoders and GAN. If you have not, I suggest looking into it. In a

I used to think ML was missing the ability to formulate abstractions until I read about autoencoders and GAN. If you have not, I suggest looking into it. In a well designed autoencoder, the network ends up discovering an abstract representation of inputs and a conceptual space to express it.