# How are Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning related?

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## Short answer

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence focused on systems that improve at a task by learning from data, rather than being explicitly programmed with rules. As Arthur Samuel, put it on the record: "Programming computers to learn from experience should eventually eliminate the need for much of this detailed programming effort."

## Sources

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