Because of new computing technologies, machine learning today is not like machine learning of the past. It was born from pattern recognition and the theory that computers can learn without being programmed to perform specific tasks; researchers interested in artificial intelligence wanted to see if computers could learn from data. The iterative aspect of machine learning is important because as models are exposed to new data, they are able to independently adapt. They learn from previous computations to produce reliable, repeatable decisions and results. It’s a science that’s not new – but one that has gained fresh momentum.
While many machine learning algorithms have been around for a long time, the ability to automatically apply complex mathematical calculations to big data – over and over, faster and faster – is a recent development. Here are a few widely publicized examples of machine learning applications you may be familiar with:
The heavily hyped, self-driving Google car? The essence of machine learning.
Online recommendation offers such as those from Amazon and Netflix? Machine learning applications for everyday life.
Knowing what customers are saying about you on Twitter? Machine learning combined with linguistic rule creation.
Fraud detection? One of the more obvious, important uses in our world today.
Because
of new computing technologies,
machine
learning
today
is not like
machine
learning
of the past. It
was born
from pattern recognition and the theory that computers can learn without
being programmed
to perform specific tasks; researchers interested in artificial intelligence wanted to
see
if computers could learn from data. The iterative aspect of
machine
learning
is
important
because
as models
are exposed
to new data, they are able to
independently
adapt. They learn from previous computations to produce reliable, repeatable decisions and results. It’s a science that’s not new
–
but
one that has gained fresh momentum.
While
many
machine
learning
algorithms have been around for a long time, the ability to
automatically
apply complex mathematical calculations to
big
data
–
over and over, faster and faster
–
is a recent development. Here are a few
widely
publicized examples of
machine
learning
applications you may be familiar with:
The
heavily
hyped, self-driving Google car? The essence of
machine
learning.
Online recommendation offers such as those from Amazon and Netflix?
Machine
learning
applications for everyday life.
Knowing what customers are saying about you on Twitter?
Machine
learning
combined with linguistic
rule
creation.
Fraud detection? One of the more obvious,
important
uses
in our world
today
.