Machine Learning is Popular Right Now

Last Updated on June 7, 2016

It is important to know what is special right now to make machine learning an attractive field to study. Knowing why it is popular now can act like a guide together with knowledge of the promise that the field makes. It can highlight open questions and methods which are growth areas and why that may be the case.

Machine learning is popular now. An example of this popularity has been the response to Stanford’s online machine learning course that had hundreds of thousands of people showing expressions of interest in the first year. Also Google Trends that tracks the popularity of search terms, suggests that searches for machine learning are about to out-pace the searches for artificial intelligence. Machine learning is moving beyond the textbooks, with technical publishers like O’Reilly and Manning publishing books on machine learning for a lay technical audience.

In this post we will review the confluence of factors that has resulted in machine learning to be popular, now.

Matured Field

The field of machine learning has matured a lot in the last decade, and changed a lot in the last few years.

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