Understanding AI and Machine Learning - The Burnie Group

The terms artificial intelligence and machine learning have gained a lot of hype in the news lately, and a lot of articles seem to use both terms interchangeably, even though they are different. The aim of this article is to make more sense of all the technical jargon out there. The term artificial intelligence (AI) is derived from the phrase, "man-made ability to learn and understand." This means AI is a broad brand association name which covers all things man-made with respect to the human ability to understand and disseminate information. Data, which is unprocessed information, is the foundation to which all man-made systems learn, hence the rise of the term, "big data."