{"id":104796,"date":"2020-04-05T09:03:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T16:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/self-supervised-learning-is-the-future-of-ai"},"modified":"2020-04-05T09:03:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T16:03:12","slug":"self-supervised-learning-is-the-future-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/self-supervised-learning-is-the-future-of-ai","title":{"rendered":"Self-supervised learning is the future of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/self-supervised-learning-is-the-future-of-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the huge contributions of deep learning to the field of artificial intelligence, there\u2019s something very wrong with it: It requires huge amounts of data. This is one thing that both <a href=\"https:\/\/bdtechtalks.com\/2019\/12\/23\/yoshua-bengio-neurips-2019-deep-learning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the pioneers<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bdtechtalks.com\/2018\/02\/27\/limits-challenges-deep-learning-gary-marcus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">critics of deep learning<\/a> agree on. In fact, deep learning didn\u2019t emerge as the leading AI technique until a few years ago because of the limited availability of useful data and the shortage of computing power to process that data.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UX8OubxsY8w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Reducing the data-dependency of deep learning is currently among the top priorities of AI researchers.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UX8OubxsY8w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">keynote speech at the AAAI conference<\/a>, computer scientist Yann LeCun discussed the limits of current deep learning techniques and presented the blueprint for \u201cself-supervised learning,\u201d his roadmap to solve deep learning\u2019s data problem. LeCun is one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-03-27\/three-godfathers-of-deep-learning-selected-for-turing-award\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">godfathers of deep learning<\/a> and the inventor of <a href=\"https:\/\/bdtechtalks.com\/2020\/01\/06\/convolutional-neural-networks-cnn-convnets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">convolutional neural networks (CNN)<\/a>, one of the key elements that have spurred a revolution in artificial intelligence in the past decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the huge contributions of deep learning to the field of artificial intelligence, there\u2019s something very wrong with it: It requires huge amounts of data. This is one thing that both the pioneers and critics of deep learning agree on. In fact, deep learning didn\u2019t emerge as the leading AI technique until a few years [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}