Arthur Samuel(1959):Machine Learning: Field of study that gives computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed.
赋予计算机在没有明确设置下,使计算机具有学习能力的研究领域。
②比较新的概念:
Tom Mitchell (1998) :Well-posed Learning Problem: A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some task T and some performance measure P, if its performance on T, as measured by P, improveswith experience E.