Artificial Intelligence for Business, 2nd Edition

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Different Ways a Machine Learns

In this chapter:

• Teaching machines with supervised learning

• Letting machines learn on their own with unsupervised learning

• Giving machines some direction with semi-supervised learning

• Using rewards to reinforce machine learning

People learn in all sorts of ways—through reading, listening, observing, sensing, feeling, playing, interacting, comparing, experiencing, reasoning, teaching, trial and error, and so on. And that just scratches the surface. Scientists are still trying to figure out how the brain works and identify the many ways the brain functions to learn new things.

The same is true about machines. ...