Eli5 What is machine learning?

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Like. What is it?

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Answer 1

Simplest way I could phrase it :

“I say 5, you say 3”, “I say 100, you say 98” and repeat it millions of times with different numbers. Your assignment is to figure out a relation/formula (how much do add, subtract or divide) between number I tell you and the number You should answer (in this case: my number minus 2 is your number).

Now instead of numbers we use dog images and answers are dog breeds.