From the course: Executive Guide to Predictive Modeling Strategy at Scale

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Defining terms

Defining terms

- [Instructor] I want to begin by reviewing some terms that will allow us to identify where we'll be focused in this course. My favorite definition of artificial intelligence is one that I'm going to borrow from a thought leader in this space named Colin Shearer. "A computer doing something that, "if done by a human being, "would be judged to be intelligent." Now of course, artificial intelligence is a huge field and involves all kinds of things like visual recognition, driverless cars, and devices in our home, like smart thermostats or devices like Amazon Alexa. We're going to be focused on traditional machine learning, which encompasses two of the most important topics of all, supervised and unsupervised machine learning. I'm going to define traditional machine learning in the following way, a broad term that generally refers to presenting carefully curated data to computer algorithms that find patterns and…

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