The Revolution will be Unsupervised

We need a complete paradigm shit to take the next step in AI

This articles was originally published on my website — https://kislayverma.com/technology/the-revolution-will-be-unsupervised/

This is a guest post by Bharath Reddy. Bharath works for a large bank helping them with data analytics. He teaches Machine Learning and AI to people with no prior coding or mathematics experience. When not working or teaching — he can be found sketching or spending time with my dogs.

To understand what I mean by an unsupervised revolution let me first tell you a brief history of AI in 3 acts.

ACT 1

Early years 1956–1974

The field of AI research was founded at a workshop held on the campus of Dartmouth College during the summer of 1956.Those who attended would become the leaders of AI research for decades. Many of them predicted that a machine as intelligent as a human being would exist in no more than a generation and they were given millions of dollars to make this vision come true. [1]

First Winter 1974 -1980

Blinded by their optimism, researchers focused on so-called strong AI or general artificial intelligence (AGI) projects, attempting to build AI agents capable of problem solving, knowledge representation, learning and planning, natural language processing, perception, and motor control. This optimism helped attract significant funding into the…