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What is machine learning?

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What is machine learning?

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- [Instructor] We've finally gotten here. Where all of our hard work on crafting a data set may finally pay off in building a quality machine learning model. But, before we dive in, let's first try to define what machine learning actually is. Now, if you ask 10 people, you may get 10 different definitions of what machine learning is. As an illustration of that, here's a few widely accepted definitions. The first is one of the more well-known definitions. It comes from Arthur Samuel. Samuel originally coined the phrase machine learning in 1959. Yeah, it's been around that long. Samuel was a pioneer in computer gaming and artificial intelligence. He defined it as, "The field of study "that gives computers the ability to learn "without being explicitly programmed." The next is from Tom Mitchell, who is a Computer Science professor at Carnegie Mellon. He defined it as follows, "A computer program is said to learn from experience E "with respect to some task T and some performance measure…

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