Machine Learning is not about Machine but about Learning

It seems like many people think that machine learning is about machine.

But this book changed my view; machine learning is about learning.

The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World

To make machines learn new things, first we need to unpack the concept of learning.

What is learning? How do we learn?

We do not think about these questions often.

But it seems like these are the key questions to machine learning.