AI legend Yann LeCun, one of the godfathers of deep learning, sees self-supervised learning as the key to AI's future. © 2018
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Progress in the field since then has been breathtaking and relentless.If anything, this breakneck pace is only accelerating. Five years from now, the field of AI will look very different than it does today. Methods that are currently considered cutting-edge will have become outdated; methods that today are nascent or on the fringes will be mainstream.