[bonoboTP]

Weakly-supervised and self-supervised methods are extremely mainstream today. There is a flood of papers on these topics. Conferences are full of them. This comment was perhaps insightful 5-6 years ago, today it's absolute orthodoxy. The thing is though, supervised just works way better. It's not that people don't want to do weakly-supervised, but that it's very hard!

[phenkdo]

My point exactly. Weakly/self-supervised learning is "very hard" because it's still an active area of research and breakthroughs are needed. I feel those a pre-requisite before we can credibly approach the promise of "doing everything"