REAL WORLD APPLICATIONS
Machine Learning is an upcoming field that has been recognized by companies for its usefulness and innovative techniques. Many major companies now use Machine Learning to better themselves.
SELF-DRIVING CARS
Environment awareness and independent decision making
Nowadays, the first thing that comes to mind when machine learning is brought up is self-driving cars. Self-driving cars have been popularized by companies such as Tesla and Lucid.
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Self-driving cars learn to drive by collecting data about driving situations and road conditions. As this data is collected and processed, the machine makes decisions on the spot about what to do such as if they should turn, stop, or continue to accelerate. The machines utilize equipment such as sensors, cameras, and radars.
FANTASY FOOTBALL PREDICTIONS
Predicting winners, losers, and player stats
Just like how machine learning can be used for stock market predictions, it can also be used to make predictions about fantasy football. Data is collected about players statistics and point totals from a range of several years.
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This data can be used to predict things such as the top 50 players in the franchise or players that are expected to have the least impact on their fantasy football team.
IMAGE RECOGNITION
Facial recognition, identifying diseases
Image recognition is powered by machine learning. Modern machine learning methods allow for facial recognition by analyzing images and videos. An example of this is how Apple uses facial ID to allow users into their phone.
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Image recognition is also used in the medical field. For example, machine learning is used to identify signs of melanoma in patients charts and scans.
CUSTOMER SERVICE
Chatbots
A chatbot is a program that can act and converse like a human primarily through text or even voice chat. This is done by a process called natural language processing.
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Chatbots can be seen in sites such as online clothing stores or even mobile bank applications. They are primarily used to answer frequently asked questions.
EMAILS
Spam Recognition
Machine learning is present even in your emails. Spam emails are detected through the use of machine learning algorithms.
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Machines are trained using words that are commonly seen in fraud/spam emails and scan through messages for those words to flag them as spam.