Introduction to Machine Learning

You have probably heard the term Machine Learning (ML) or Artificial Intelligence (AI) frequently in recent years, especially Deep Learning (DL). It may be the reason you decided to invest in this book and get to know more. Given some new, exciting developments in the area of neural networks, DL has come to be a hot area in ML. Today, it is difficult to imagine a world without quick text translation between languages, or without fast song identification. These, and many other things, are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the potential of DL to change your world. When you finish this book, we hope you will join the bus and ride along with amazing new applications and projects based on DL. 

This chapter briefly introduces the field of ML and how it is used to solve common problems. Throughout this chapter, you will be driven to understand the basic concepts of ML, the research questions addressed, and their significance. 

The following topics will be covered in this chapter: 

• Diving into the ML ecosystem
• Training ML algorithms from data
• Introducing deep learning
• Why is deep learning important today?