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Machine learning focuses on applications that
learn from experience and improve their
decision-making or predictive accuracy over
time.
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What is machine learning?
How machine learning works
Machine learning methods
Reinforcement machine learning
Deep learning
Real-world machine learning use cases
Machine learning and IBM Cloud
What is machine learning?
Machine learning is a branch of arti�cial intelligence (AI)
focused on building applications that learn from data and
improve their accuracy over time without being
programmed to do so.
In data science, an algorithm is a sequence of statistical
processing steps. In machine learning, algorithms are
'trained' to �nd patterns and features in massive amounts of
data in order to make decisions and predictions based on
new data. The better the algorithm, the more accurate the
decisions and predictions will become as it processes more
data.
Today, examples of machine learning are all around us. Let’s talk
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