Introduction to algorithms, machine learning and AI

As the field of artificial intelligence grows and enters the marketing mainstream it brings with it a host of new vocabulary and subtlety. At Adweek, a panel on AI declared it and machine learning to be the same thing for the purposes of their discussion. But while the terms might be interchangeable from an event perspective, they equate to very different things. As the fields of machine learning and AI become more entwined in our rhetoric it's important we have a clear understanding of the difference – the last thing the industry needs is another "native", where definitions vary wildly from one provider to another. An algorithm is a series of instructions written by a programmer for software to follow.