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Machine Learning (ML)

Also known as: ML, Machine Learning

In one sentence

A way to train computers to learn from examples and data, instead of programming every rule manually.

Explain like I'm 12

Instead of telling a computer every single rule, you show it tons of examples and it figures out the patterns on its own.

In context

Powers spam filters (learns what's spam), product recommendations (learns what you like), and image recognition (learns to identify cats).

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