Machine Learning

• A few years back I read a quote from Bill Gates that AI was now called machine learning.
• While I don't agree with BillG on this, it does point out machine learning's current importance.
• It's closely related to the term Big Data.
• If you've got a lot of data, how can you process it to get useful information.
• Of course, the answer(s) depends on the data.
• How can you learn from all of the web pages on the Internet, and all the search queries to generate a list of pages. (That's what most search engines do.)
• How can you learn to recognise speech? (Hidden Markov Models and Deep Neural Nets)
• How can you learn to categorise based on sample data?
• This is machine learning, and we'll talk about a lot of techniques this year.