How Machine Learning Is Changing Our Lives - SMU Daily Campus

Machine learning is a method of teaching computers to learn from data, without being explicitly programmed. The goal is to create algorithms that can automatically learn and improve from experience. Machine learning algorithms can be divided into two categories: supervised and unsupervised. Supervised algorithms learn from a set of training data that has been labeled with the correct answers. Unsupervised algorithms learn from data that has not been labeled, and must learn to recognize patterns on their own.