From the course: Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Value Estimations
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What is machine learning?
From the course: Machine Learning and AI Foundations: Value Estimations
What is machine learning?
- [Narrator] As a computer programmer your job is to write the rules that tell a computer exactly how to solve a specific problem. Machine learning is a different approach. Machine learning is where the computer itself learns the rules to solve a problem without being explicitly programmed. Let's start with an example we are all familiar with, junk email. Imagine you are writing a program to filter out junk email from your inbox using traditional programming. First, you'd have to write a complicated program that contains all the rules to decide if a particular email message is junk or a real message. For example, the program might look for certain keywords that you think would only appear in junk email, or you might have the program check if the sender of the email was someone you emailed before. Next, you try out the program by feeding in some test emails. Finally, you check the results of the program to see if it correctly separated real emails from junk emails. In this process, the…
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