What ever pattern is responsible for doing something in a network, the same function can be described much more simply by an algorithm. Yes, but for that you'd

What ever pattern is responsible for doing something in a network, the same function can be described much more simply by an algorithm. Yes, but for that you'd have to find the algorithm, which takes lots of human resources. That's what unsupervised learning saves you. In several specialized fields like computer vision and aural interpretation, a generic neural network trained for hours can outperform algorithms that took decades of research to refine.