It's Time To Demystify Machine Learning

The hype machine is cranked up to an 11 on the topic of machine learning (sometimes called artificial intelligence, though I don't call it that because AI is not really intelligence and there's nothing artificial about it). Machine learning will either empower the world or take it over, depending on what you read. But before you get swept away by the gust of hot air coming from the technology industry, it's important to pause in order to put things into perspective. Maybe just explaining it in reasonable terms will help. Shortly after the first caveman figured out how to make fire, the second caveman wanted to learn how to make fire, too.