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πŸ€– What Is Machine Learning?


🧠 Beginner-Friendly Definition

Machine Learning (ML) is a type of AI where computers learn from data to make decisions or predictions without being directly told what to do.

βœ… Example: Like a student learning from practice problems, a machine learns by looking at lots of data and figuring out patterns.


πŸ›οΈ Official Definitions

πŸ“˜ Arthur Samuel (1959)

β€œMachine Learning is the field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.”

πŸ“™ Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University)

β€œA computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some task T and performance measure P if its performance at task T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.”


πŸ’‘ Key Idea

Instead of hard-coding rules, we give the machine lots of examples β€” and it figures out the rules on its own.