Building Intelligent Systems: A Guide to Machine Learning Engineering

©  Geoff Hulten 2018

Geoff HultenBuilding Intelligent Systemshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3432-7_20

20. Machine Learning Intelligence

Geoff Hulten¹ 

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Lynnwood, Washington, USA

 

Machine learning is a powerful technique for producing intelligence for large, hard, open-ended, time-changing problems. It works by showing the computer lots (and lots) of examples of contexts and the desired outcomes. The computer produces models from these examples. And the models can be used to predict the outcome for future contexts.

Machine learning can be a huge force multiplier, allowing the computer to focus on things it is good at (like tuning every detail of a gigantic model so it works effectively in millions of contexts), while humans can focus on what they ...