Building Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platform: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners

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E. . BisongBuilding Machine Learning and Deep Learning Models on Google Cloud Platformhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4470-8_13

13. What Is Machine Learning?

Ekaba Bisong¹ 

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OTTAWA, ON, Canada

 

Machine learning as a field grew out of the need to get computers to solve problems that are difficult to program as a sequence of instructions. Take, for example, that we want a computer to perform the task of recognizing faces in an image. One will realize that it is incredibly complicated, if not impossible to develop a precise instruction set that will satisfactorily perform this task. However, by drawing from the observation that humans improve on performing complex functions from past experiences, we can then attempt to develop ...