‘Machine learning is a science of the artificial. The field's main objects of study are artifacts, specifically algorithms that improve their performance with experience.’
Langley, 1996
‘Machine Learning is the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience.’
Mitchell, 1997
‘Machine learning is programming computers to optimize a performance criterion using example data or past experience.’
Alpaydin, 2004
‘Machine learning is an area of artificial intelligence concerned with the development of techniques which allow computers to “learn”.’
Wikipedia, 2005
‘A field of AI concerned with programs that learn. It includes Reinforcement Learning and Neural Networks among many other fields.’
Artificial Intelligence FAQ, 2004
Machine learning is an area of artificial intelligence concerned with the study of computer algorithms that improve automatically through experience. In practice, this involves creating programs that optimize a performance criterion through the analysis of data.
Sewell, 2006
Due to the no free lunch theorems, machine learning within academia often consists of searching for data sets that show a novel algorithm in a favourable light.
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