Embracing machine learning in education

What is this so called machine learning that has everyone in the market adopting? Machine learning has varying definitions, depending on the authors of books and articles or one's understanding. I like to define machine learning as a branch of artificial intelligence that provides systems with the ability to learn and act like humans, while also improving their learning over time through observations and real-world interactions without being explicitly programmed. In technical terms, it is simply a set of algorithms with the ability to learn, act and adapt autonomously without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning can be applied in various areas in our day-to-day lives.