To supervise or not to supervise in AI?

To learn more about opportunities in applied AI, join us at the O'Reilly Artificial Intelligence Conference, September 26-27, 2016 in New York. One of the truisms of modern AI is that the next big step is to move from supervised to unsupervised learning. In the last few years, we've made tremendous progress in supervised learning: photo classification, speech recognition, even playing Go (which represents a partial, but only partial, transition to unsupervised learning). Unsupervised learning is still an unsolved problem. As Yann LeCun says, "We need to solve the unsupervised learning problem before we can even think of getting to true AI."