This document discusses machine learning and its role in artificial intelligence. It begins with an abstract that explains machine learning is widely used in artificial intelligence to enable systems to learn and make decisions without being explicitly programmed. It then provides an introduction to machine learning, explaining it allows software to learn from data and improve predictions without being explicitly programmed. The document also discusses related work from other researchers on topics like supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and evaluating different machine learning methods. It describes problems that can occur during the learning process like bias, noise, and pattern recognition. Finally, it provides algorithms for hierarchical clustering and k-means clustering as examples of unsupervised learning methods.