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My name is Ale Flores, and I'm product
manager at Alexa.

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My name is Dr. Chelsea Haupt. I work at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence,

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and I work on an AI-powered academic search engine.

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All around you, computers are making
decisions, and those decisions affect

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your daily life. When you do an internet
search or scroll through your newsfeed,

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computers decide what you see.

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Computers can already recognize your face and understand your voice,

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soon they'll be driving cars and detecting diseases, even better than humans.

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So how is any of this possible?

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You may have heard of something called AI or artificial intelligence.

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True artificial intelligence is decades away.

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But a type of AI is here today, called Machine Learning.

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It's a type of AI you probably interact with every day, without knowing it.

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It has the opportunity to help us tackle some of the world's biggest challenges.

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Machine learning is how computers recognize patterns, and make decisions

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without being explicitly programmed.

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What's so exciting, is that it's a completely
different way to program a computer than

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what we've ever done before.

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With machine learning, instead of programming a computer step by step,

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you can program to learn just like you learn, through trial and error, and lots of practice.

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Learning comes from experience, and that's true for machine learning too.

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In this case, "experience" means lots and lots of data.

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Machine learning can take in any kind of data:

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Images, video, audio, or text, and begin to
recognize patterns in that data.

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Once it learns to recognize patterns in the data, it can also learn to make predictions

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based on those patterns.

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Like noticing the difference between an image of a car, and an image of a bicycle.

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AI and machine learning are playing a bigger and bigger role in society at large,

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and shaping all of our futures.

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That's why it's so important to learn how it works, with some hands-on experience.

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You're about to get the chance to train your own machine learning model.

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Remember, AI is like any tool: first you get the knowledge, then you get the power!