Chapter 1Introduction to Machine Learning

WHAT'S IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Introduction to the basics of machine learning
  • Tools commonly used by data scientists
  • Applications of machine learning
  • Types of machine learning systems
  • Comparison between a traditional and a machine learning system

Hello and welcome to the exciting world of machine learning with Amazon Web Services (AWS). If you have never heard of machine learning until now, you may be tempted to think that it is a recent innovation in computer science that will result in sentient computer programs, significantly more intelligent than humans, that will one day make humans obsolete. There is very little truth in that idea of machine learning. For starters, it is not a recent development. For ...

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