22 points
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I’m still mad that ML was stolen and doesn’t make people think about the ML family of programming languages anymore.
7 points
The term machine learning was coined in 1959 by Arthur Samuel, an IBM employee and pioneer in the field of computer gaming and artificial intelligence.[9][10] The synonym self-teaching computers was also used in this time period.[11][12]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning
It wasn’t so much stolen as taken back.
