Machine Learning Facts & Motivation

Machine Learning is a technique, by which, with some data you are giving an opportunity to the computer to create some rules.

Input of Machine Learning is data and the output is some set of rules. According to which it analyzes the inputs, and give the users some outputs.

*Though Machine Learning is popular nowadays, but the concept of ML developed in the time of 1960s. ML was not popular that time due to tha lack of hardware equipment. But in the present time we have much better and cheaper hardware components so ML is trending.

*Short History of Machine Learning:

The term machine learning was coined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel, an American IBM-er and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence. A representative book of the machine learning research during the 1960s was the Nilsson's book on Learning Machines, dealing mostly with machine learning for pattern classification.Interest related to pattern recognition continued into the 1970s, as described by Duda and Hart in 1973. In 1981 a report was given on using teaching strategies so that a neural network learns to recognize 40 characters (26 letters, 10 digits, and 4 special symbols) from a computer terminal.

Tom M. Mitchell provided a widely quoted, more formal definition of the algorithms studied in the machine learning field: "A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E." This definition of the tasks in which machine learning is concerned offers a fundamentally operational definition rather than defining the field in cognitive terms. This follows Alan Turing's proposal in his paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", in which the question "Can machines think?" is replaced with the question "Can machines do what we (as thinking entities) can do?"

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If you somehow think that you are late for machine learning, believe me you are here just in time. In the next 5 to 10 years this field has lot opportunities. So your decision is very good.

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For another, watch this awesome Tesla's Autopilot System.

To know about Alphago---CLICK HERE (AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go. It was developed by DeepMind Technologies which was later acquired by Google.)