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What is machine learning?

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What is machine learning?

Machine learning

A type of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning allows systems to learn and improve through experience, without needing to be explicitly programmed. Machine learning means that computers can handle new experiences through analysis, self-training, observation, and experience. This could include exposure to new scenarios the self-testing how it adapts. The primary purpose of machine learning is to allow the computers to learn automatically without human intervention or assistance through complex algorithms so that massive amounts of data can be analysed.

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