The bright future of machine learning - Northwestern Now

A decade ago, just three of the 2,500 students enrolled in leadership and organizational change professor Brian Uzzi's classes knew about machine learning. Five years ago, three became 10%, and now, this topic is "the number one thing all students want to learn about," Uzzi says. Machine learning is definitely a hot topic these days, and both Uzzi and management and organizations professor Adam Pah (left), who together have been studying machine learning for more than two decades, have some ideas about its benefits, pitfalls and vast potential. Pah: In the common sphere, the terms "machine learning" and "artificial intelligence" are used pretty interchangeably. I think of artificial intelligence as a nonhuman entity performing a task with what would appear to be the intelligence of a human.