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Machine learning
Written by Minh Khang
What is Machine learning?
Machine learning is a way for machines to work out patterns from many examples, instead of a person writing every rule for them.
Instead of telling the machine "check orders over 2 million dong carefully", you give it thousands of past orders already marked as genuine or fraud, and it finds the signs itself. Most AI today, from product recommendations to spam filters, is machine learning. Good, complete data makes good guesses; skewed data makes skewed guesses.
Machine learning in a shop
A marketplace suggesting "people who bought this jacket also bought these jeans" is machine learning trained on purchase history.
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