Microsoft Research Podcast

101 - Going meta: learning algorithms and the self-supervised machine with Dr. Philip Bachman

Deep learning methodologies like supervised learning have been very successful in training machines to make predictions about the world. But because they’re so dependent upon large amounts of human-annotated data, they’ve been difficult to scale. Dr. Phil Bachman, a researcher at MSR Montreal, would like to change that, and he’s working to train machines…