Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Are they the same?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field inspired by the neurons of the human brain that allow computers to learn hidden patterns from the data and perform human like tasks. Some areas that have been using artificial intelligence: self-driving cars, robots.

Machine learning is a field of study that gives the computer the ability to self-learn without being explicitily programmed to do so. Essentially, the computer is given historical data to learn from, so that when new data is fed into it, it can use what it learned to make predictions. Some use cases of machine learning are predicting how much oil a well is going to produce, image recognition, using medical diagnoses to recognize cancerous tissues or anomalies in medical images.

Although, they are frequently used interchangeably, there are differences between both. Artificial intelligence focuses on enabling a machine to perform human like behavior while machine learning focuses on teaching a machine to learn from past data in order to make predictions about the future.

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