Examples of ML:

• Search
• iPhoto face learning
• spam filters

Researchers believe that the best way to learn about learning is to make the algorithms work like humans.

Why is ML Prevalent?

• Grew out of work in AI
  • AI programs didn’t work for complex tasks
  • Best way to do complex tasks was to make computers learn
• New capability for computers

Examples of modern ML

Database mining - larger database sets - web click/clickstream data - medical records (find correlations ‘n such) - turn medical records into medical knowledge (data -> info) - biology & engineering

Applications which can’t be worked by hand - autonomous helicopters learning to fly themselves

Self-customizing programs - recommendation engines

Understand human learning. Brain and real AI.