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Machine Learning

The part of AI where systems learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules.

Definition

Machine learning is the part of AI where a system improves at a task by finding patterns in example data rather than following rules a programmer wrote by hand. It covers supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. Training adjusts a model's internal numbers (parameters) to minimize error on examples, after which the model generalizes to new inputs.