Machine learning is the scientific discipline of enabling computers to learn patterns from data and make predictions or decisions without explicit task-by-task programming. It provides a foundation for generative AI and supports data-driven applications across many domains. section 1.2
Machine learning connects several practical activities and capabilities:
- Algorithms learn from data rather than following only manually specified instructions. section 1.2
- Machine learning supports predictions and decisions in applications such as spam filtering and e-commerce recommendations. section 1.2
- Deep learning extends machine learning with multilayer artificial neural networks that learn from large amounts of data. section 1.2
Applied decision-making
An email system can learn patterns associated with unwanted messages and use those patterns to predict whether new messages are spam, without requiring a separate explicit rule for every message. section 1.2









































