With machine learning, a programmer does not have to write instructions that take into account all possible problems and contain all solutions. Instead, a computer (or a separate program) is programmed with an algorithm for independently finding solutions through the integrated use of statistical data, from which patterns are derived and on the basis of which forecasts are made.

Thanks to machine learning, computers learn to recognize not only faces in photographs and drawings, but also landscapes, objects, text, and numbers. As for the text, machine learning is also indispensable here: the grammar check function is now present in any text editor and even in phones. Moreover, not only the spelling of words is taken into account, but also the context, shades of meaning and other subtle linguistic aspects. Moreover, there is already software that can write news articles (on the topic of economics and, for example, sports) without human intervention.