Making Friends with AI
Explaining supervised learning to a kid (or your boss)
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4 min readJun 5, 2018
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!