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Machine learning

n. Foundations 1959

The branch of AI where systems learn patterns from examples instead of following rules a person wrote by hand. Show it thousands of labeled emails and it learns to spot spam on its own. Abbreviated ML.

“The fraud filter isn't a list of rules; it's machine learning trained on past chargebacks.”

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In the history of AI

One of the Essentials

Machine learning is one of 20 Essential terms: the words you need to follow a news story or a work meeting about AI. It entered common use around 1959.