I think the study of machine learning is
relevant to anyone who wants to understand
one of the most important
technologies changing our world today.
There's some things that computers have
for many years done far better than
people, like solving arithmetic problems
and remembering large amounts of facts.
At the same time, they're also things that
people do much better than computers, like
using their interpersonal skills or solving problems that have never come up before.
So, the benefit of combining people and
computers is that you can in a sense get
the best of both worlds.
The machines do the things they do better
than people, people do the things they do
better than computers and together, they
can do things that were never possible
before.
I hope participants will walk away from
this course with a solid understanding of
how machine learning can actually
be used in a real business.
We want to give you solid intuitions for
what's actually going on beneath the hood
of these new technologies so that you
can understand at a deeper level what the
system is doing and how you
can take advantage of it.
I hope you'll join us for this six-week
online course from the MIT Sloan School of
Management and the MIT Computer
Science and AI Laboratory.
