What Is Machine Learning? Your Essential Business Intelligence Glossary - Capterra Blog

I recently spoke with Michael Finley, Head of Machine Learning at BI software company AnswerRocket, who helped elaborate. Before machine learning, most software "ran the way it was programmed: people turned instructions into computer code, and the computer did what that code told it to do." A very simple example would be a calculator: you fed the calculator numbers, told it what to do (add, subtract), and the calculator gave you results. With machine learning, however, the software can adapt. Finley continues: "Software with machine learning doesn't do the same thing the day you install it as it does the tenth or hundredth day you run it."