Applications of machine learning

In this chapter, you will learn about the applications of machine learning in today’s world. The machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI), however, machine learning is the core of any artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Now let us look over the applications of machine learning in today’s world.

Virtual Assistants:
An intelligent virtual assistant (IVA) or intelligent personal assistant (IPA) is a software device which can perform some tasks or services for an individual based on commands or questions. Examples are like

1. Amazon Alexa on the Amazon Echo device
2. Siri on an iPhone
3. Google Assistant on android mobile devices

Web Search Engine:
As we know the Google Search Engine is the best example for web search engine. The web search engine is a software system which gives the set of results based on the web search query. This web search query may be related to some kind of information. Examples for web search engines are

1. Google
2. Bing
3. Duckduckgo

Video Surveillance:
Surveillance is the monitoring of behaviour, activities, or information for the purpose of directing. This can include observation from a distance by means of electronic equipment, such as closed-circuit television (CCTV).

Face Recognition:
Machine learning helps in building the system which helps in identifying the person from a digital image.

Photo tagging Applications:
Nowadays we can see the tagging in social media, that can be achieved with the help of machine learning, the best example is Facebook.

Spam filters:
Spam filters detect unsolicited, unwanted, and malicious link content email and stop it from getting into email inboxes.