Machine Learning – Can We Please Just Agree What This Means

Summary: As a profession we do a pretty poor job of agreeing on good naming conventions for really important parts of our professional lives. "Machine Learning" is just the most recent case in point. It's had a perfectly good definition for a very long time, but now the deep learning folks are trying to hijack the term. Let's make up our minds. As a profession we do a pretty poor job of agreeing on good naming conventions for really important parts of our professional lives.