welcome to introduction to machine learning lesson i'm excited to be your instructor for this section machine learning is creating rapid and exciting changes across all levels of society it's changing behind the recent advancement in autonomous vehicles it allows for more accurate and rapid translation of text into hundreds of languages and it powers the ai assistance you might find in your home we can also use machine learning to do things like improving worker safety and speeding up drug discovery machine learning is a complex subject area our goal in this lesson is introduced to to some of the most common terms and ideas used in machine learning i will then walk you through the different steps involved in machine learning and finish with a series of examples which use machine learning to solve real-world situations there are a lot to cover let's get started