Already it has impacted our lives without us realizing it
There is no doubt that we are on the precipice of some great things in technology. The fevered excitement behind it is probably the biggest technological advancement of our present time. Already, it has impacted our lives without us realizing it. Companies we do business with regularly (Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix and more have heavily invested in finding new applications, many already in place, to benefit how consumers interact with them.
Think about how fast a search engine can find what you’re looking for online giving you thousands (if not millions) of options within a fraction of a second. How about the spam filters you use with your emails, designed to learn your preferences and then intercept suspicious activity before it does you harm, or perhaps a computer with the ability to identify abnormal activity on your bank account. This list goes on.
Most of us have become completely unaware of how machine learning has slowly crept into our lives in many ways and will continue to impact us in the years to come. In fact, it has made a major impact on dozens of applications that we use every day.
As a beginning student of machine learning, you have a lot to look forward to, now and well on into the future. While we’re not at the stage of the “Terminator” and big corporations like Cybernetics yet, machine learning is the future and something we all must know about. If you’ve picked up this book, then you’re already keen to be a part of this new revolution. Well, hold on to your seatbelts because we’re about to go on a bumpy ride.