Self-supervised learning allows a neural network to figure out for itself what matters. The process might be what makes our own brains so successful.

funny quote: “We are raising a generation of algorithms that are like undergrads [who] didn’t come to class the whole semester and then the night before the final, they’re cramming,” said Alexei Efros, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. “They don’t really learn the material, but they do well on the test.”