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What is machine learning?

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What is machine learning?

- Related to AI, you'll often hear the phrase machine learning. What does this mean? How could we teach a machine to think? Well, it's a complex process, but one that's useful to understand. What exactly is machine learning? Well, what it comes down to is machine learning is a type of AI where the computer system is able to learn from data, rather than programming it. By showing it lots of information and giving it details about that data, it could start to learn what is right or wrong when making the decision. For example, it's possible to train AI to recognize the differences between a dog and a cat, so when you show it photos or videos of the subject, it's able to correctly pick what is what. It doesn't mean it's perfect every time, but with more and more training, the accuracy goes up. But this training does involve people. It's not a simple process, and you have to build these algorithms. So…

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