What You Need to Know About Machine Learning

AI systems are used to recognize text and speech, to make purchase recommendations on e-commerce websites, to recognize your friends in Facebook photos, and to suggest films for you to watch on Netflix. The core element of those AI systems is something known as machine learning. The term "machine learning" sounds daunting, especially because it's related to the field of artificial intelligence, but it really just refers to the ability of computers to recognize patterns. The key, of course, is not just for a computer to recognize existing patterns that it has already been trained to learn, but also to recognize patterns that it has never seen before. The "learning" in "machine learning," then, refers to the ability of a computer to recognize an ever-growing number of patterns without the need for any form of human supervision.