What machine learning actually is

After this lesson you can: Explain how a model learns a rule from examples instead of being given one.

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• What is Machine Learning? - IBM Technology, 8 min. Directly targets the beginner question of what machine learning is, without broad AI taxonomy distractions.
• Machine Learning Explained: A Guide to ML, AI, & Deep Learning - IBM Technology, 11 min. A short beginner guide likely contrasts ML, AI, and deep learning while centering machine learning basics.
• AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Generative AI Explained - IBM Technology, 10 min. Useful context for separating ML from AI and generative AI, though broader than this lesson.

Notes

Machine learning is a way to build software behavior from examples instead of writing every rule by hand. In ordinary programming, you write the rule and the computer applies it to data. In machine learning, you provide data with examples of the behavior you want, and training adjusts a model until it produces useful outputs for similar inputs.

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