Demystifying Machine Learning

Summary:

• Common definition: “Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed”
• Tom Mitchell’s definition: “The field of machine learning is concerned with the question of how to construct computer programs that automatically improve with experience.”
• Tom Mitchell’s formal definition: “A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.”