Unsupervised Learning Will Bring About The Next AI Revolution

A6 months old baby won't even notice if a toy truck drives off a platform and seems to fly in the air. However, if the same experiment is repeated 2 to 3 months later, the baby will immediately identify that something is wrong. This means that the baby has already learned the concept of gravity. "Nobody tells a baby that objects are supposed to fall," said the chief AI scientist at Facebook and a professor at NYU, Dr. Yann LeCun, during a webinar organized by the Association for Computing Machinery, an industry body. Because babies do not have very sophisticated motor control, LeCun hypothesizes, "a lot of what they learn about the world is through observation."