What is Machine Learning and how does it differ from traditional programming?

Machine Learning is a subset of artificial intelligence that enables computers to learn and make decisions from data without being explicitly programmed for every scenario.\n\n• Traditional Programming: Input + Program → Output\n• Machine Learning: Input + Output → Program (Model)\n• Key difference: ML discovers patterns automatically from data\n• Applications: Email spam detection, recommendation systems, image recognition\n\nExample: Instead of writing rules to detect spam emails, ML algorithms learn from thousands of spam/non-spam examples to identify patterns and classify new emails automatically.