Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Machine Learning

As someone who often finds himself explaining machine learning to non-experts, I offer the following list as a public service announcement. Machine learning means learning from data; AI is a buzzword: Machine learning lives up to the hype: there are an incredible number of problems that you can solve by providing the right training data to the right learning algorithms. Call it AI if that helps you sell it, but know that AI, at least as used outside of academia, is often a buzzword that can mean whatever people want it to mean. Machine learning is about data and algorithms, but mostly data: There's a lot of excitement about advances in machine learning algorithms, and particularly about deep learning . But data is the key ingredient that makes machine learning possible.