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What is machine learning?

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What is machine learning?

- [Narrator] What is machine learning and why is it useful? You can think of machine learning as a field of study that gives computers the ability to learn from data without being explicitly programmed. Here's an example of why machine learning is useful. Say you have 150 flowers. You're interested in determining which flowers are which flower species based on a feature like their petal length. There are three different flower species: Iris Setosa, Iris Versicolor, and Iris Virginica. From analyzing the data, you can mainly write rules to separate out the flowers from each other. The first rule could separate out the Setosa from the other species. From there, you can make another rule to try and separate out the Versicolor from the Virginica. You're going to keep on writing rules until you completely separate out the flower species from each other. For something more complicated with more features, your program could have…

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