Explore the world of unsupervised learning through autoencoders in this 49-minute conference talk by Christoph Henkelmann at MLCon. Dive into the basic concept of autoencoders, various architectural variants, and their diverse applications. Learn about CNN autoencoders, the importance of the bottleneck layer, and practical use cases including anomaly detection, denoising, and similarity detection. Discover the power of generative autoencoders, intrinsic space exploration, and the advantages of variational autoencoders (VAE). Gain insights into real-world applications of unsupervised learning techniques in industry, and leave with a comprehensive understanding of this powerful machine learning approach.