So You Want to Study Machine Learning and Civil Engineering?

Machine Learning (ML) in its literal terms implies, writing algorithms to help Machines learn better than human. ML is an aspect of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that deals with the development of a mathematical model which is fed with training data to identify patterns in that data and produce an output. In other words, ML is concerned with the utilization of data to train machines (e.g., computer) to learn things (e.g., identifying different dog breeds) and produce an accurate output when fed with a test data (e.g., this dog is a terrier). The machine gets better (in terms of accuracy of the output) with time and/or with more data. The goal of ML is to make machines that act like humans, to make man's tasks easier.