Machine Learning: the genie is out of the lamp - and he's not going back

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are transformative technologies that are reshaping various industries. While AI is a broad field encompassing the development of systems that can perform tasks requiring human intelligence, ML is a subset of AI that focuses on the ability of machines to learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed.

The concept of AI can be traced back to ancient mythology and stories of artificial beings. Modern AI began in the 1950s with pioneers like Alan Turing, who proposed the Turing Test, and John McCarthy, who coined the term "Artificial Intelligence" and organized the Dartmouth Conference in 1956, which is considered the birth of AI as a field.

Early AI research focused on symbolic reasoning and the development of expert systems that encoded expert knowledge into rules.