Next-Generation Machine Learning with Spark: Covers XGBoost, LightGBM, Spark NLP, Distributed Deep Learning with Keras, and More

© Butch Quinto 2020

B. QuintoNext-Generation Machine Learning with Sparkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5669-5_1

1. Introduction to Machine Learning

Butch Quinto¹ 

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Carson, CA, USA

 

I could give you the usual arguments. But the truth is that the prospect of discovery is too sweet.

—Geoffrey Hintonⁱ

Machine learning (ML) is a subfield of artificial intelligence, the science and engineering of making intelligent machines.ⁱⁱ One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, Arthur Samuel, defined machine learning as a “field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.”ⁱⁱⁱ Figure 1-1 shows the relationship between artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning. Artificial intelligence (AI)