"Machine learning is the study of computer algorithms that automatically improve with experience." — From the first page of Tom Mitchell's book [1997]: https://
cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu
/user/mitchell/ftp/mlbook.html
… My paraphrase: "ML is the set of 𝙈𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙇𝙂𝙊𝙍𝙄𝙏𝙃𝙈𝙎 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙇𝙀𝘼𝙍𝙉