> Machine learning and data mining are not well distinguished, but machine learning techniques increasingly favor “unsupervised” learning algorithms.
The statement above puzzles me because it does not align with what I can see in the news. Maybe I'm just uninformed, so please let me know if I'm wrong.
According to what I can read in the news:
1 - Almost all of the recent ML developments that I can think of are in the field of supervised learning / reinforcement learning
2 - the only field that I can think of where unsupervised learning techniques are prevalent is data mining, which is precisely why I see it as a very specific field.
> Machine learning and data mining are not well distinguished, but machine learning techniques increasingly favor “unsupervised” learning algorithms.
The statement above puzzles me because it does not align with what I can see in the news. Maybe I'm just uninformed, so please let me know if I'm wrong.
According to what I can read in the news:
1 - Almost all of the recent ML developments that I can think of are in the field of supervised learning / reinforcement learning
2 - the only field that I can think of where unsupervised learning techniques are prevalent is data mining, which is precisely why I see it as a very specific field.
Am I missing something?