Merrill Lynch uses machine learning to automate investors’ portfolios. Facebook employs it to curate newsfeed content. Professional soccer teams utilize machine learning to design personalized training programs to keep players injury-free. And, of course, Google’s self-driving cars rely on it to navigate the roads.
Thanks to machine learning’s ability to analyze data with greater speed and more accuracy than any human — in a more cost-effective way — the technology is now being embraced by....