Misperception of Machine Learning

Once awhile ago, in a usual busy work morning, I was pulled into meeting which my colleague said I absolutely need to participate because someone was going to present a success story of Machine Learning. Being an analytics evangelist in the company, I was of course excited about it! At the end of the presentation, I raised my hand to ask the presenter a question..."Can you help me understand how was Machine Learning applied in this use case?". The presenter replied..."I passed through these data into a Regression Model to produce these prediction results on my laptop." Unfortunately, nowadays, the phrase "machine learning" has become an overused buzzword just like "big data".