Machine learning is used in a range of everyday situations. But do you know where?

Does this involve machine learning?

Driverless car

Police speed gun

CCTV

Voice recognition software

Movie recommendation system

Credit card fraud software

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Usually computer programs follow a set of hard coded rules, which specify exactly what steps are needed to solve a problem. Machine learning is different.
So what's going on?
Have you ever wondered how a computer can learn to recognise your voice or face, or how it can learn what films you’d like to watch?
Here, computers are given real-world examples of data to learn from. They can then apply what they've learnt to new situations – just like humans do.
Let's take a closer look at how machine learning is changing our world.
In fact, the processes involved are easier to understand than you might think.
It starts with data – lots of data. Businesses and governments are collecting more data than ever before.
IBM estimates that 90% of all the world's data has been created in the last two years.