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machine learning

noun \mə-ˈshēn ˈlər-niŋ\

also ML

TopicFundamentals First known use1959 Senses1
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Definition of machine learning

  1. : a branch of AI in which computers learn patterns from data instead of following rules written by hand, and use those patterns to make predictions or decisions

    • Instead of writing a rule for every kind of spam, the team used machine learning to learn from millions of labeled emails.
    • Machine learning works best when you have lots of good examples.

Origin & history

first known use1959

Popularized by IBM researcher Arthur Samuel in 1959, describing a checkers program that improved by playing against itself.

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