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A Non-technical Introduction to Machine Learning

Olivier Colliot  1
Olivier Colliot  1
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In: Machine Learning for Brain Disorders [Internet]. New York, NY: Humana; 2023. Chapter 1.
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A Non-technical Introduction to Machine Learning

Olivier Colliot.
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Excerpt

This chapter provides an introduction to machine learning for a non-technical readership. Machine learning is an approach to artificial intelligence. The chapter thus starts with a brief history of artificial intelligence in order to put machine learning into this broader scientific context. We then describe the main general concepts of machine learning. Readers with a background in computer science may skip this chapter.

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