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A branch of AI in which systems learn patterns from data to make predictions or decisions instead of following only hand-written rules.

ML powers lead scoring, demand forecasting, fraud detection and recommendations, so its value depends on having enough reliable historical data and a clear business decision that a better prediction will improve.

A subscription business trains a churn classifier on 24 months of usage, billing and support data, tests it on a held-out 20% of accounts, and sends the 200 highest-risk accounts each week to customer success for outreach.

Models learn the patterns and biases in their training data and can degrade when customer behavior or data pipelines change. High accuracy on test data does not prove business impact or fairness once the model runs in production.

In supervised learning a model learns from labeled examples to perform regression or classification; unsupervised learning finds structure such as clusters in unlabeled data; reinforcement learning improves actions through rewards and penalties. Training adjusts model parameters to reduce error, followed by validation, deployment and monitoring. ISO/IEC 23053:2022 sets out a framework and terms for ML-based AI systems, and Predictive Modeling applies these methods to business forecasting.