What is Machine Learning?

Machine Learning is the field of study that deals with making computers "learn" from data/experience.

Main Use Cases

Machine Learning is mainly useful in cases where:

  • there is no human expertise available to solve a problem

  • there is human expertise, but humans cannot explain the expertise well enough (if at all) to be able to hard-code a program

  • the solution changes with time

  • a customized solution is required, ex. targeted marketing/advertising

How is Machine Learning Getting Better?

Advances in ML are mainly owed to:

  • the increased amounts of data

  • the development of better algorithms

  • the availability of cheap and more powerful computing resources

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