Unsupervised learning explained

Despite the success of supervised machine learning and deep learning, there's a school of thought that says that unsupervised learning has even greater potential. The learning of a supervised learning system is limited by its training; i.e., a supervised learning system can learn only those tasks that it's trained for. By contrast, an unsupervised system could theoretically achieve "artificial general intelligence," meaning the ability to learn any task a human can learn. If the biggest problem with supervised learning is the expense of labeling the training data, the biggest problem with unsupervised learning (where the data is not labeled) is that it often doesn't work very well. Nevertheless, unsupervised learning does have its uses: It can sometimes be good for reducing the dimensionality of a data set, exploring the pattern and structure of the data, finding groups of similar objects, and detecting outliers and other noise in the data.