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Glossary

# Machine Learning (ML)

The broader technology where a computer improves at a task by learning patterns from data, rather than being programmed with fixed rules.

Machine learning is the general technology behind modern AI, including large language models: a system improves at a task by learning patterns from data instead of following instructions someone wrote by hand. It’s the foundation everything else in this glossary, from LLMs to embeddings, is built on.

[See every term in the glossary](/glossary/)

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