Self-Supervised Learning - The New AI Frontier

AI has classically come in three forms, supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning. Supervised learning is where AI is given many example scenarios and the right answer for each one (such as images labeled as Cat or Dog). Unsupervised learning has been traditionally where AI learns to group items together by similarity (clustering), without explicit labels. Reinforcement learning is where AIs try out strategies (such as in a game) and attempt to optimize a reward function (such as points in the game). Many commercial AIs are based on supervised learning.