UK developer? Here's what you need to know about machine learning

Thanks to its role underpinning many of the recent advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning has become of mainstream interest to many technologists and developers. Here we'll explain what it is, how you can get started plus the best tools and languages you need to develop machine learning technology. Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence defined by US computing pioneer Arthur Samuel in 1959 as a'field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed'. Instead, computers are'trained' to spot patterns or identify trends by feeding them large amounts of data. You may have also heard of'deep learning' or'neural networks', another subset within machine learning.