Explore Topics:
AIBiotechnologyRoboticsComputingFutureScienceSpaceEnergyTech
Computing

Machine Learning Is Everywhere, But What Is It Exactly?

SingularityHub Staff
Aug 28, 2017
encryption-key-lock-digital-circuit-board-blue

Share

From Google’s language translation app to autonomous cars, machine learning has become a key ingredient in multiple areas of our lives—but what exactly is it?

In the simplest sense, machine learning is a method of computer data analysis that learns from its own experience. Once a machine learning algorithm learns what specific patterns look like, it can apply the knowledge on a vast scale. For example, a fraud detection machine learning algorithm may miss a few false charges initially, but once it identifies the pattern, it can protect against millions of future attacks.

Check out this week’s episode of Tech-x-planations to learn more about the basics of machine learning.

Image Credit: gruc/CreatasVideo/Getty Images

Be Part of the Future

Sign up to receive top stories about groundbreaking technologies and visionary thinkers from SingularityHub.

100% Free. No Spam. Unsubscribe any time.

SingularityHub chronicles the technological frontier with coverage of the breakthroughs, players, and issues shaping the future.

Related Articles

Characters from the video game minecraft

DeepMind’s New AI Teaches Itself to Play Minecraft From Scratch

Shelly Fan
Lines of colorful light converge on a black background

This Brain-Computer Interface Is So Small It Fits Between the Follicles of Your Hair

Edd Gent
A 3D digiral render of a colorful, brain-like structure

What Anthropic Researchers Found After Reading Claude’s ‘Mind’ Surprised Them

Edd Gent
Characters from the video game minecraft
Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind’s New AI Teaches Itself to Play Minecraft From Scratch

Shelly Fan
Lines of colorful light converge on a black background
Computing

This Brain-Computer Interface Is So Small It Fits Between the Follicles of Your Hair

Edd Gent
A 3D digiral render of a colorful, brain-like structure
Artificial Intelligence

What Anthropic Researchers Found After Reading Claude’s ‘Mind’ Surprised Them

Edd Gent

What we’re reading

Be Part of the Future

Sign up to receive top stories about groundbreaking technologies and visionary thinkers from SingularityHub.

100% Free. No Spam. Unsubscribe any time.

SingularityHub chronicles the technological frontier with coverage of the breakthroughs, players, and issues shaping the future.

Follow Us On Social

About

  • About Hub
  • About Singularity

Get in Touch

  • Contact Us
  • Pitch Us
  • Brand Partnerships

Legal

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
© 2025 Singularity