The Affirmative Action of Vocabulary – Alistair Croll – Medium

Most machine learning is literally prejudice--telling a machine, "based on what you've seen in the past, predict the future." But what do we do when it's also correct? Many of the most popular examples of "artificial intelligence" today are actually about classification. For example, we can show a computer past pictures of dogs, and have it predict whether a new picture is a dog (or a pastry.) We can also use those predictions to do things like mimic an art style, or try and anticipate what word will come next in a sentence, or suggest people with whom you might want to connect.