Machine learning is behind chatbots and predictive text, language translation apps, the shows Netflix suggests to you, and how your social media feeds are presented. It powers autonomous vehicles and machines that can diagnose medical conditions based on images. When companies deploy artificial intelligence programs, they are most likely using machine learning, so much so that the terms are often used interchangeably. Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence that gives computers the ability to learn without explicitly being programmed. With the growing ubiquity of machine learning, everyone in business is likely to encounter it and will need some working knowledge about this field.