AI Glossary
Machine learning
What is Machine learning?
A subset of AI in which systems learn patterns from data rather than being explicitly programmed with rules. Modern LLMs are built on machine learning. Deep learning — using multi-layer neural networks — is a further subset and the dominant approach for frontier AI.
Example in practice
A bank using machine learning to detect fraudulent transactions is applying pattern recognition on historical transaction data — no programmer manually wrote rules for every fraud scenario.
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