Making Friends with AI

Explaining supervised learning to a kid (or your boss)

Cassie Kozyrkov
Towards Data Science

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Now that you know what machine learning is, let’s meet the easiest kind. My goal here is to get humans of all stripes and (almost) all ages comfy with its basic jargon: instance, label, feature, model, algorithm, and supervised learning.

Instances

Behold: four instances!

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Chief Decision Scientist, Google. ❤️ Stats, ML/AI, data, puns, art, theatre, decision science. All views are my own. twitter.com/quaesita