[bjoernbu]

> The first company to figure out how to leverage the massive unlabeled data that is available will win the AI arms race.

I would expect that this will remain a per-task question for a very long time, maybe even forever. For example, I was amazed at how elegant https://openai.com/blog/unsupervised-sentiment-neuron/ is for an unsupervised model for sentiment analysis.

I think there are numerous similar application in text understanding and I would not be suprised to eventually seen many sota systems learn in an unsupervised fashion. Still, there remain many other tasks (in general, but also for text understanding) where this and similar strategies do not seem applicable to me -- or at least where I cannot directly imagine how they should be.

I would not be suprised if we end up with many, many successful strategies to apply unsupervised learning -- many completely different, and thousands of problems still being used with the help of supervised learning. Not with a "company to figure out" a general case