Machine learning
Technology enabling computers to learn from data and improve performance without explicit programming. Machine learning discovers patterns in Big Data.
Real World
Spotify's Discover Weekly uses machine learning to analyse your listening history alongside millions of other users' habits, finding patterns to recommend songs you have never heard.
Exam Focus
Distinguish supervised from unsupervised learning by whether training data is labelled — this is the most common exam discriminator.
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