What is Machine learning?

Jacob Greene
2 min readSep 16, 2020
Machine Learning
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Machine Learning is a part of Artificial Intelligence with the ability to learn the code itself and innovate by experience without human involvement. It turns the information based on sample data into knowledge. Machine Learning helps in parsing the information that is readily available and facilitates decision making. It guides the computer machines to behave like humans do, providing a large set of data. The data introduced in Machine Learning tends to generalize new features and learns a few tricks by itself. Machine Learning assists computers to execute any task without clearly programming it. It is efficiently utilizing data collected from various channels and these data help in the prediction of the future by analyzing past datasets.

“Machine Learning is the science of getting computers to act without explicitly programmed.”

Stanford

Machine Learning

Key Points:-

  • Assists in solving complicated real-world problems smoothly.
  • It focuses on allowing computers to learn itself and carry out actions appropriately.
  • It permits the user to put up a set of data to the computer algorithm that helps in data-driven recommendations using input data.

Machine Learning can be categorized as:

Supervised Learning: while training an algorithm it provides a set of labeled data (inputs and their desired outputs). It helps in correcting the algorithm. Some applications using supervised learning techniques are Speech Recognition, Spam Detection, etc. It is of two types Regression and Classification.

Unsupervised Learning: The information in unsupervised learning is neither labeled nor classified. It identifies the patterns in data sets, the algorithm classifies, and group the data points inside the data sets without any guidance. It can perform more complex tasks as compared to supervised learning.

Conclusion:

Deep Learning is the modern evolution of Machine Learning. ML is the most emerging field where the demands for high-order predictions are consistently increasing towards Data Science. Machine Learning is the technology that is transforming almost every walk of life, what do u think will it affect the bloggers?

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Jacob Greene

Medical and Healthcare Writer/Editor, Floating into the ideas to submerge the healthy space. Thoughts-Ideas// Notion-Revolution