Layman's Intro to #AI and Neural Networks – Autonomous Agents -- #AI

Simply put, any algorithm that has the ability to learn on its own, given a set of data, without having to program the rules of the domain explicitly, falls under the ambit of Machine Learning. This is different from Data Analytics or Expert systems where, rules, logic, propositions or activities has to be manually coded by an expert programmer. Systems which has ability to learn on its own and progress towards a pre-defined goal, without much of human intervention can be broadly termed as Intelligent Systems. The quality of intelligence can range from an amoeba, algae, ant, armadillo all the way to chimps, humans or beyond. As an example, systems which interact with humans in natural language cannot be built by coding the rules and conversational logic of human language.