An older, informal defintion:
The field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed. 使计算机在没有明确编程情况下学习的研究领域。
3. A more modern definition:
A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E. 一个计算机程序被称为从经验 E 中学习关于某类任务 T 和性能度量 P,它在 T 中的任务上的性能,由 P 度量,随着经验 E 提高
机器学习的分类: Supervised learning and Unsupervised learning