Machine learning: Trends, perspectives, and prospects

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SCIENCE VOL. 349, NO. 6245

Machine learning: Trends, perspectives, and prospects

M. I. JORDAN AND T. M. MITCHELL

SCIENCE 17 Jul 2015 Vol 349, Issue 6245 pp. 255-260 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa8415

Abstract

Machine learning addresses the question of how to build computers that improve automatically through experience. It is one of today’s most rapidly growing technical fields, lying at the intersection of computer science and statistics, and at the core of artificial intelligence and data science. Recent progress in machine learning has been driven both by the development of new learning algorithms and theory and by the ongoing explosion in the availability of online data and low-cost computation. The adoption of data-intensive machine-learning methods can be found throughout science, technology and commerce, leading to more evidence-based decision-making across many walks of life, including health care, manufacturing, education, financial modeling, policing, and marketing.

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