The predominant AI development method. In the 1980s, AI systems were programmed more like regular data processing applications (if-then-else rules). Today, AI systems use machine learning to "learn by ...

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...

Software that can has been (or can be) trained to make decisions based on rules of its own invention, as opposed to rules explicitly programmed by the software author. Instead of starting with rules, ...