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Key takeaways from Machine learning, explained

Machine learning is a powerful form of artificial intelligence that is affecting every industry. Here’s what you need to know about its potential and limitations and how it’s being used.

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Machine learning is behind chatbots and predictive text, language translation apps, the shows Netflix suggests to you, and how your social media feeds are presented. It powers autonomous vehicles and machines that can diagnose medical conditions based on images.

With the growing ubiquity of machine learning, everyone in business is likely to encounter it and will need some working knowledge about this field.

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence. It was defined in the 1950s by AI pioneer Arthur Samuel as “the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without explicitly being programmed.”

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