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Key Machine Learning Definitions

Glossary of the most used terminology in machine learning

Roberto Iriondo
Towards AI
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6 min readMay 19, 2020
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Below please find a searchable glossary of terms that are relevant to the scientific field of machine learning — on ongoing growth.

This glossary is by no means complete. If a term it’s missing, please let me know in the comments, and I’ll add its definition to this growing glossary. Also, if you have feedback regarding a definition of any of the term(s), please let me know as well.

Glossary of Terms | Sorted (A-Z)

AI Agent:

An AI agent or intelligent agent is a bot used in AI-related tasks.

Algorithm:

An algorithm is a process that follows a set of rules, a problem solver — mainly used by computers.

AlphaGo:

AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go. It is recognized as the first Computer Go program to beat a professional human Go player [5].

Artificial Intelligence (AI):

Artificial intelligence (AI), as defined by Professor Andrew Moore, is the science and engineering of making computers behave in ways that, until recently, we thought required human intelligence [1].

Autonomous:

Being autonomous refers to a device or tool capable of operating without direct human control.

Backpropagation:

Backpropagation is the primary algorithm for gradient descent, in which the output calculates the values of each node in a forward-pass neural network. Then, the partial derivative of the error respective to each parameter calculates in a backward pass neural network through the graph.

Black box:

A black box is a complex neural network in which algorithms, contents, and decision-making processes are unknown to the end-user.

Bot:

A bot is an autonomous program that can interact with computer systems, programs, or users. Mostly, directly or indirectly supervised by a human.

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