Key Machine Learning Definitions
Last Updated on July 24, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Roberto Iriondo
Originally published on Towards AI.
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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.
An AI agent or intelligent agent is a bot used in AI-related tasks.
An algorithm is a process that follows a set of rules, a problem solver — mainly used by computers.
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