I saw “The Social Dilemma” on Netflix and got very curious (and terrified) when they started to talk about machine learning and artificial intelligence but couldn’t really understand it and how it works..
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Imagine you want to have a computer program that guesses if you like Celine Dion or not. You would collect data by asking questions on the street about people’s age, music taste, favorite color, … You would put these data in a computer and the computer could create a set of rules to guess if someone likes Celine Dion or not.
This is called classification and is an example of machine learning.
Facebook uses machine learning for showing you the right ad, for detecting people in pictures, or removing offensive comments.
Artificial intelligence is the field in computer science that tries to do complicated tasks automatically. Classification is a complicated task, but there are other examples such as finding the shortest path to go to work, translating from french to english, or beating someone at chess.
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