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Machine learning

As explained in Generative AI in Action

A scientific discipline in which computers learn patterns from data to make predictions or decisions without being explicitly programmed for each task.

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

How Generative AI in Action covers it

How deep it goes
Defines learning, predictions, and decisions, but defers detailed machine-learning mechanisms and mathematics.
Examples
Uses spam filtering and e-commerce recommendation systems to illustrate data-driven prediction and decision-making.
What you can do after
Evaluate/understand how learned data patterns support predictions, decisions, and generative AI applications.
How it connects
Links machine learning to deep learning, artificial neural networks, data engineering, model training, inference, and generative AI.

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