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What Is Machine Learning

Machine learning is defined as giving computers the ability to learn without explicit programming by Arthur Samuel, while Tom Mitchell provides a modern definition as a computer program improving its performance on some tasks based on experience. Examples include playing checkers, where the experience of many games improves the probability of winning the next game. Machine learning problems are classified as supervised or unsupervised learning.

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What Is Machine Learning

Machine learning is defined as giving computers the ability to learn without explicit programming by Arthur Samuel, while Tom Mitchell provides a modern definition as a computer program improving its performance on some tasks based on experience. Examples include playing checkers, where the experience of many games improves the probability of winning the next game. Machine learning problems are classified as supervised or unsupervised learning.

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What is Machine Learning?

Two definitions of Machine Learning are offered. Arthur Samuel described it as: "the field of study
that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed." This is an older,
informal definition.

Tom Mitchell provides a more modern definition: "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."

Example: playing checkers.

E = the experience of playing many games of checkers

T = the task of playing checkers.

P = the probability that the program will win the next game.

In general, any machine learning problem can be assigned to one of two broad classifications:

Supervised learning and Unsupervised learning.

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