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How Machine Learning in Retail Impacting Businesses

Machine Learning in retail is a term that can be defined in several ways. Some people use the time to refer to any machine learning, which is a tool for programming and analyzing large data sets. However, I think that there is another way to use the term, and that is to refer to any "machine learning," which includes tools used to automate complex tasks. In the retail sector, machine learning has become a massive topic of interest because it is now possible to automate much of the retail business process by using the internet as a tool. The concept of machine learning was first introduced to the retail technology by IBM's Watson when it was searching through millions of pages of documents to answer questions. The question was, how would the system to answer questions that it had no idea about. Using machine learning, the systems learned how to "see" patterns in the data that IBM then translated into answers that consumers needed. The approach is straightforw...