Infographic: What is machine learning?

For those not native to the programming world, it can get pretty confusing knowing which terms means what when it comes to artificial intelligence (in other words, which one to use in a meeting to sound like you know what you're talking about). Machine learning is probably the term that most of us think of when we imagine artificial intelligence, whether we realise it or not. It isn't the same as AI, though the terms are often used interchangeably, and really just refers to a certain way in which a machine can use large amounts of data to do things we think of as smart. A basic computer program's intelligence comes from the programmer who wrote the instructions. It is simply code that a computer runs from start to finish.