Machine Learning

Fundamentals

A way of building software where the computer learns rules from examples instead of being programmed step by step.

In traditional programming, a person writes exact rules for the computer to follow. In machine learning, you instead show the computer thousands or millions of examples and let it work out the rules on its own.Show a system enough labeled photos of cats and dogs and it learns to tell them apart - nobody ever writes a rule like cats have pointy ears. Almost everything called AI today, from spam filters to ChatGPT, is built with machine learning.