Machine Learning and AI
People often conflate machine learning with artificial intelligence. Certainly, the two topics are closely related, but they are not synonymous. Artificial intelligence is concerned with developing synthetic intelligence at some level. At a more basic and practical level, it is concerned with expert systems as well as decision support systems. At a more advanced and speculative level, AI is about synthetic consciousness.
Machine learning is focused on algorithms that improve their performance over time based on input. In other words, the algorithm learns to perform a particular task better over time. While this can be very useful, it is not generalized intelligence, or even expertise. It is improving the performance ...
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