Machine learning and the evolving intelligence landscape

Machine learning has been around for a while, with the earliest techniques developed in the 1950s. It is currently enjoying a particularly high profile, thanks to a whole range of possible applications from self-driving cars through to Go-playing computers. But what exactly is it? I've just finished diving into Josefin Rosen's blog post, a description of how machine learning makes for a smarter life, and asked her to put ML in context. Welcome to join my discussion with Josefin. Josefin Rosén (JR): I think the easiest way of thinking about it is that machine learning is basically a subfield of artificial intelligence.