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Machine Learning (Initial Idea 1)

 Machine Learning

 


Machine learning is a sub-field of artificial intelligence (AI) which focuses on creating applications that collect data and later learn from it and steadily improve without being programmed to do so (IBM, 2020). It is a technique that helps computers learn from experience using machine learning algorithms to learn from data to gradually improve performance with the increase of data (MathWorks, 2021).

Machine learning is everywhere around us, most people encounter it every day, there is a huge number of real-world machine learning use cases for example:

·       Voice assistants such as Apple Siri, Google assistant which are inside every one’s phones.

·       Product recommendations which works by collecting data from our previous purchases and previous internet activity to recommend the product most interesting to the aimed person

·       Self-driving cars, they constantly identify surrounding objects and guide the car

·       Fraud detection, used by banks to keep consumers safe.

and there are many more use cases as the machine learning field is huge and it keeps growing exponentially with each day.

Machine learning uses two different techniques to work: supervised learning, which uses labeled data to predict future outputs, and unsupervised learning, which digests huge number of unlabeled data to find meaningful features and hidden patterns (MathWorks, 2021). Additionally, the techniques themselves which machine learning uses to work, are made up of different techniques such as classification techniques and regression techniques for supervised learning, and clustering for unsupervised learning (IBM, 2020).

 

 

References:

IBM, 2021. What is Machine Learning?. [online] Ibm.com. Available at: <https://www.ibm.com/cloud/learn/machine-learning> [Accessed 16 April 2021].

MathWorks, 2021. What Is Machine Learning? | How It Works, Techniques & Applications. [online] Mathworks.com. Available at: <https://www.mathworks.com/discovery/machine-learning.html> [Accessed 16 April 2021].

Computerizer, 2021. AI. [image] Available at: <https://pixabay.com/photos/robot-mech-machine-technology-2301646/> [Accessed 20 April 2021].

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