The history of machine learning algorithms

Machine learning algorithms can perform exponential tasks today--from mastering board games and identifying faces to automating daily tasks and making predictive decisions--this decade has brought forward countless algorithmic breakthroughs and several controversies. But one would find it a challenge to believe this development started only less than a century ago with Walter Pitts and Warren McCulloch. Analytics India Magazine takes you through a historical story of machine learning algorithms. Machine learning was ideated first in 1943 by logician Walter Pitts and neuroscientist Warren McCulloch, who published a mathematical paper mapping the decision-making process in human cognition and neural networks. Later, mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing introduced the Turing test in 1950.