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I am thinking about giving a talk at our local nerd nite branch about machine learning. I would like the talk to not go into any technical details but to just give a few examples (4-6) that are really impressive/surprising to people that have no idea about the field. I remember a story where Walmart was able to tell whether a woman is pregnant by only looking at her bills. Also there is the facebook Gaydar. Does anyone have examples like that, of course with sources? |
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There are actually thousands of examples, but you want simple examples from everyday life, right? Two simple, and prevalent, ones are: Spam filtering with Naive Bayes classifier. e.g. Wikipedia Neural nets (also many other flavours of classifier) for credit scoring e.g. Jensen, Managerial Finance 1993 |
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There are many examples to pick from. There is credit card fraud detection [1]. Recommendation engines are something people frequently interact with. Modern search engines use ranking algorithms to better estimate the documents you might want. Machine translation is another application people frequently encounter. OCR is used when scanning in documents. There are even machine learning algorithms to determine the ripeness of fruit [2].
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