In this chapter, we introduced ML and its value by contrasting it against classical programming. We then spent some time exploring different applications of ML, and for each we speculated about the type of data, algorithms, and learning style used. This approach was taken to help demystify how ML works and to encourage you to start thinking about how you can leverage data to improve user experience and/or offer new functionality. We'll continue this approach throughout this book with (obviously) more emphasis on making use of ML by way of example applications related to computer vision.

In the next chapter, we will introduce Core ML, iOS's specifically designed framework for making ML accessible to developers with little or no experience with ML.