AI GLOSSARY · AI BASICS
Machine learning
A way of building AI where the system learns patterns from examples instead of following hand-written rules.
Example
A spam filter learns from thousands of emails marked “spam” or “not spam”.
Learn it by doing
Reading a definition is a start; using the idea makes it stick.
Related terms
AI BASICSArtificial intelligence (AI)Computer systems that perform tasks we associate with human thinking, such as understanding language, recognising images…AI BASICSDeep learningMachine learning using neural networks with many layers, which can learn complex patterns in text, images and sound.AI BASICSNeural networkA model made of layers of simple connected units whose connection strengths (weights) are adjusted during training.AI BASICSGenerative AIAI that creates new content — text, images, audio, video or code — based on patterns learned from training data.