How to Explain Machine Learning to your Manager?

Machine Learning (ML) is one of those heavily used buzzwords that you often hear these days. Most managers want to use it but don't know where to start or even what it actually means. It may seem mysterious, technical, and intimidating at first. But in this post, I'll breakdown what ML is, its applications, how ML is built, and the skills you need to develop ML at a very high "management" level. In most simple words, Machine Learning is the ability of certain types of computer programs to learn from experience in much the same way as we humans learn from our experiences.