What is Machine Learning?

If a typical person can do a mental task with less than one second of thought, we can probably automate it using AI either now or in the near future.9

In this post we’ll provide a general introduction to machine learning, which tries to highlight the underlying technical challenges and where we have solutions. Machine learning is the principle technology underpinning the recent advances in artificial intelligence. But what is machine learning? And why is it important?

Machine learning is perhaps the principal technology behind two emerging domains: data science and artificial intelligence. The rise of machine learning is coming about through the availability of data and computation, but machine learning methdologies are fundamentally dependent on models.

The emergence of machine learning is closely tied to the emergence of widely available data.

Large amounts of data and high interconnection bandwidth mean that we receive much of our information about the world around us through computers.

Economists try to measure productivity, one of the ways we can become more productive is by becoming more efficient. For example, moving from gathering food to settled agriculture. In the modern