What is Machine Learning - and Why is it Important? - Interactions

Lately, it seems that every time you open your browser or casually scroll through a news feed, someone is writing about machine learning and its impact on both humans and the advancement of artificial intelligence. Machine learning has been highlighted in articles covering everything from Virtual Assistant solutions to self-driving cars and robots that can perform the same tasks as humans. A number of large companies are defining machine learning as'the future' – but what does that really mean? Machine learning is nothing new. The history, in fact, dates back over sixty years to when Alan Turing created the'Turing test' to determine whether a computer had real intelligence.