# Machine learning

A way of building software where a model learns patterns from examples in data instead of following rules a person wrote; also the field that studies it.

The Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary says: "A program or system that trains a model from input data. The trained model can make useful predictions from new (never-before-seen) data drawn from the same distribution as the one used to train the model. Machine learning also refers to the field of study concerned with these programs or systems."

Also called: ML

Source: https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/machine-learning (version 1.0, changed 2026-10-21)