Unwrapping Machine Learning - EMC Emerging Tech Blog

In a recent IDC spending guide titled Worldwide cognitive systems and artificial intelligence spending guide, some fantastic numbers were thrown out in terms of opportunity and growth 50 % CAGR, Verticals pouring in billions of dollars on cognitive systems. One of the key components of cognitive systems is Machine Learning. According to wikipedia Machine Learning is a subfield of computer science that gives the computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. Just these two pieces of information were enough to get me interested in the field. After hours of daily searching, digging through inane babble and noise across the internet, the understanding of how machines can learn evaded me for weeks, until I hit a jackpot.