- Machine learning is a field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed by using example data. It is a form of artificial intelligence.
- There are three main types of machine learning: supervised learning where examples are labeled, unsupervised learning where unlabeled examples reveal inherent groupings of data, and reinforcement learning where an agent learns from trial and error using rewards.
- Machine learning has many applications including web search, computational biology, finance, robotics, and social networks. It involves collecting and preparing data, developing models, and evaluating models to make predictions on new data.