Machine Learning: The Master Algorithm
ON MACHINE LEARNING Most of the knowledge in the world in the future is going to be extracted by machines and will reside in machines. – Yann Le Cun, Director of AI Research, Facebook MACHINE LEARNING is the automated discovery of Knowledge. With the Internet and sensors everywhere flooding the world with data, the ground for machine learning is extremely fertile. Machine Learning is done by learning algorithms. Pedro Domingos’ book is a discourse on the quest for the Master Algorithm which is able to learn anything and everything anytime. However, the quest for a Master Algorithm is by default a quest to know the nature of the learning process, and there are five schools of thought here on just what happens when we are learning so that machines can emulate them. (Dominos call’s them the five tribes of machine learning). Each of the tribes have their strong and valid points and any master algorithm would have to take a bit from each tribe. them. Bel...