Machine Learning and AI for Healthcare: Big Data for Improved Health Outcomes

© Arjun Panesar 2021

A. PanesarMachine Learning and AI for Healthcare https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6537-6_3

3. What Is Machine Learning?

Arjun Panesar¹  

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Coventry, UK

 

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

—Albert Einstein

The first Checkers program from machine learning pioneer Arthur Samuel debuted in 1956, demonstrating artificial “intelligence” capabilities [68].

Since then, not only has the application of AI grown; there is now a velocity, volume, and variety of data that has never been seen before. Samuel’s software ran on the IBM 701, a computer the size of a double bed. Data was typically discrete.

Almost 70 years later, data is ubiquitous, and computers are now more powerful such that 100 IBM 701s can fit into the palm of ...