Fundamentals of machine learning

Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that allows software applications to become more accurate in predicting outcomes without being explicitly programmed to do so. Machine learning algorithms use historical data as input to predict new output values. In essence, it is the science of predicting data, finding patterns in data, etc. by learning a set of algorithms from large amounts of data but not explicitly programming. There are different sets of algorithms, but machine learning algorithms are primarily of two types: supervised and unsupervised.