0 the process of computers changing the way they carry out tasks by learning from new data, without a human being needing to give instructions in the form of a program:
He expanded the field of machine learning, creating applications in which computers could execute a form of reasoning, drawing conclusions from information supplied to them.
We don't have it yet. But we're going to get it. The computer that can see, the computer that can learn, machine learning.
This is a project I'm working on - using machine learning algorithms to flag abstracts as "clinically relevant".