Machine learning models typically start as blank slates that haven’t been shown any data and are incapable of performing classifications or any other tasks. The models we discuss in this essay were ...

Domingos’ book is, to the best of my knowledge, the first general history of the machine-learning field. He covers the alternate paradigms that gave rise to machine learning in the middle of the ...

Though machine learning has long been part of Google’s technology — and Google has been a leader in hiring experts in the field — the company circa 2016 is obsessed with it.

Machine learning, a field of artificial intelligence (AI), is the idea that a computer program can adapt to new data independently of human action.

Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence that includes methods, or algorithms, for automatically creating models from data. Unlike a system that performs a task by following ...

The Borgesian revelation of understanding has not and will not — and, we submit, cannot — occur if machine learning programs like ChatGPT continue to dominate the field of A.I.