IT job guide: Must-have skills for a machine learning career

Everybody in the IT industry is fascinated (or scared) of artificial intelligence. The fear, however, is more a result of misinformation than anything rooted in reality. Thankfully, machine learning has a better reputation, even though it's the most important approach to achieving artificial intelligence. Machine learning consists of algorithms that are capable of consuming massive amounts of data. These algorithms understand patterns from the data and then translate the insight into actions.