Skip to content
SimplyCPA
Glossary/Machine learning

What is Machine learning?

In short

Machine learning is a branch of artificial intelligence in which models learn patterns from data to make predictions or decisions, without being explicitly programmed with rules.

Key takeaways

  • Supervised learning trains on labeled examples; unsupervised learning finds patterns, such as clusters, in unlabeled data.
  • Biased or poor training data produces biased or poor results.
  • Models need monitoring because their accuracy can drift as conditions change.

Where it's tested

ISC: Emerging Technology Considerations — study notes, a five-minute revision sheet and practice questions.

Practise: 3 questions

Question 1 of 3 · 0 answered

A machine learning model that flags suspicious expense claims becomes less accurate over two years as spending patterns change. This is called:

Browse all 886 terms