How DO machines learn?

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It is becoming difficult to find industrial, commercial, and healthcare products that don’t claim to incorporate some form of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Much of it might be marketing hype, but AI techniques are being used to model systems that are difficult to describe analytically. And if governments are concerned about the application and verification of such systems then we perhaps need to take them seriously.

In the same breath as talking about AI, people also mention Machine Learning (ML). Certainly, any AI application needs to learn about the domain to which it is being applied, but how do you get a piece of software to learn about something in the physical world?

This talk will look at one type of AI and, without using too much maths, describe some of the simpler approaches to Machine Learning.