Timeline for When should linear regression be called "machine learning"?
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| Apr 7, 2017 at 22:51 | comment | added | Cliff AB | I strongly agree with @gung; similar to other answers, I agree that this is more often the motivation for people who call themselves "ML researchers", its definitely not a defining line. Two counter examples: recommender systems are considered a ML research area, but the results are fed directly to a human. Kalman filters are very often used in navigation for auto-pilot, with no human in the loop, yet are typically considered to be a statistics methodology. | |
| Mar 23, 2017 at 18:31 | comment | added | Lawnmower Man | I would say that's because ML as a field has spawned a variety of useful tools leveraged by statisticians, even if that's not what they want to call themselves, for marketing purposes. ;) | |
| Mar 22, 2017 at 20:21 | comment | added | gung - Reinstate Monica | This is a reasonable point, but I think in practice ML models are often handed off to people to interpret & work with. | |
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| Mar 22, 2017 at 20:07 | history | answered | Lawnmower Man | CC BY-SA 3.0 |