What is Machine Learning?

As machine learning and other areas of AI advance so does the tooling. Tooling for machine learning has become an abstraction upon complex mathematical algorithms that open up the technology to a wider audience. Advanced tooling like Microsoft's Azure Machine Learning and Cognitive Service APIs are available to software developers to use with limited to zero knowledge of the inner workings. For example, machine learning can be applied to images to enhance an application through computer vision. Computer vision allows developers to let the algorithm automate processes.