Machine Learning and the Jobs of the Future.

With the rise of automation in nearly every industry, there is still a considerable debate on the nature of jobs responsible for the automation. Jobs can vary from linguistics in natural language processing, predictive modeling in data mining to software engineers in self-driving cars. However, there has to be some underlying distinction between the jobs, at least as far as machine learning (ML) is concerned. In simple terms, it is a process of training a system to perform a task without describing how it should perform the task. A more technical definition would be: "… a machine learns with respect to a particular task T, performance metric P, and type of experience E, if the system reliably improves its performance P at task T, following experience E." 1 This involves taking a series of inputs, feeding them into a system, and allowing a system to learn what is a desired output.