What is machine learning? - Mission City Record

A Mission teacher wants to create a series of tutorial videos to teach people about machine learning, that is, if he can get his idea off the ground and running. Jeremy Ellis is a teacher at Mission Secondary School and he thinks machine learning is a valuable tool for almost everyone. But what is machine learning? Some websites define it as "a field of computer science that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed," but Ellis has a simpler example. "Machine learning is what Google uses to figure out what ads to give you when your Google searching. So, it kind of knows a little bit of your history and extrapolates to something you might be interested in ."