Machine learning is already a part of your life, you just don't know it yet

If you were born in the 80s or 90s, then there's a good chance the words'machine learning' conjure images of Arnold Schwarzenegger as The Terminator. It sounds like a far future concept that may be synonymous with AI and'the rise of the machines'. But as it happens, the rise has actually already begun. Machine learning is no science fiction concept but rather a concrete tool that you likely encounter on a daily basis already – even on the Android device that's currently sitting in your pocket. In this post, I'll attempt to demystify machine learning a little and demonstrate a few ways in which it is already a big part of your life.