This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Rahul Kasanagottu, a 32-year-old customer engineer at Google, specialized in AI and machine learning, and based in Austin. His identity and ...

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...

However, by the late 1970s, there was disappointment that the two main approaches to computing in medicine — rule-based systems and matching, or pattern recognition, systems — had not been as ...