AI & models
Machine learning
ML
A way of building software that learns patterns from examples instead of being handed step-by-step rules. Show it thousands of cat photos and it learns what a cat looks like — nobody wrote down "a cat has whiskers." It's the engine under most modern AI.
Why it matters
Part of How AI actually works → It explains where AI gets its abilities: not hand-coded, but learned from huge amounts of data.
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