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Start before LLMs. Understand where AI, ML and neural networks fit.
Machine Learning
Also called ML
Machine learning is a way of building AI by learning patterns from data instead of writing every rule by hand.
Think of it like
Think of Machine Learning as one layer in a very large toolbox: you only need to understand what job that layer performs.
Real life
A phone spam filter, recommendation engine, fraud detector or voice assistant may use Machine Learning somewhere inside.
SRE lens
Instead of a fixed CPU threshold, a model can learn what abnormal CPU behavior looks like for a service.
Remember thisMachine learning is a way of building AI by learning patterns from data instead of writing every rule by hand.