What is machine learning? Here's what you need to know about the branch of artificial intelligence and its common applications

Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, allows a computer to teach itself how to solve problems by analyzing large sets of data.
National Academies

Making Machine Learning Safer in High-Stakes Settings

Machine learning, a key enabler of artificial intelligence, is increasingly used for applications like self-driving cars, ...

Nanopore signals and machine learning unlock new molecular analysis tool

Understanding molecular diversity is fundamental to biomedical research and diagnostics, but existing analytical tools ...

Invasive plants are here to stay in CT. One UConn professor is creating an AI tool to stop new ones.

There are over 100 invasive plant species in Connecticut wreaking havoc on the state’s forests and waterways, but new technology may help ensure new species never get a chance to invade in the first ...

Unit-free theorem pinpoints key variables for AI and physics models

Machine learning models are designed to take in data, to find patterns or relationships within those data, and to use what ...
National Bureau of Economic Research

Disentangling Age, Time, and Cohort Effects in Income Inequality: A Proxy Machine Learning Approach

A canonical finding from earlier research is that the cross-sectional variance of income increases sharply with age Deaton and Paxson (1994). However, the trend in this age profile is not separately ...