Automated Machine Learning in Action

1 From machine learning to automated machine learning

This chapter covers

• Defining and introducing the fundamental concepts of machine learning
• Describing the motivation for and high-level concepts of automated machine learning

Artificial intelligence (AI), which reaches into many aspects of everyday life, has been extensively explored in recent years. It attempts to use computational devices to automate tasks by allowing them to perceive the environment as humans do. As a branch of AI, machine learning (ML) enables a computer to perform a task through self-exploration of data. It allows the computer to learn, so it can do things that go beyond what we know how to order it to do. But the barriers to entry are high: the cost of learning the ...