How you can get started with machine learning

Google, Microsoft, IBM and AWS are just some of the tech behemoths taking on machine learning, creating APIs and developing a number of sophisticated deep learning frameworks. As new areas of technology are exploited and pulled into the mainstream, the demand for skilled workers begins to rise. This is our guide to getting started with machine learning. First coined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel - a computer scientist at IBM at the time - "Machine Learning" essentially enables computers to learn without being directly programmed. Machine learning (ML) is fundamentally the application of AI that we recognise today, for example, machines performing'smart' tasks.