“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of ‘machines thinking’ without expecting to be contradicted.”
—Alan Turing
Alan Turing was not wrong.
Just a few years later, in 1959, the well-known American computer scientist Arthur Samuel came up with the following, widely accepted definition: “Machine learning is about giving computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.”
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