What Is Machine Learning | Microschool ONL

Machine learning is a field of study in [[artificial-intelligence|artificial intelligence]] that focuses on the development and study of statistical algorithms that can learn from data and generalize to unseen data, allowing computer systems to perform tasks without explicit programming language instructions. This field is a subclass of [[computer-science|computer science]] and has parts including [[online-machine-learning|online machine learning]], [[supervised-learning|supervised learning]], [[unsupervised-learning|unsupervised learning]], and [[reinforcement-learning|reinforcement learning]]. With roots in [[statistics|statistics]] and [[mathematical-optimization|mathematical optimization]], machine learning has evolved to include [[deep-learning|deep learning]], a subdiscipline that has enabled [[neural-networks|neural networks]] to surpass many previous machine learning approaches in performance.