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title: "Machine Learning vs Deep Learning"
description: "The most searched and most used terms related to artificial intelligence. Short and simple. "
date: 2025-03-04T23:00:00.000Z
updated: 2025-11-11T09:39:59.350Z
url: https://www.dxheroes.io/insights/machine-learning-vs-deep-learning
locale: en
type: article
---

## Machine learning
Machine Learning is a field of artificial intelligence that allows computers to learn from data - without having to be programmed step by step.
Models learn to recognize patterns, relationships and rules that are not visible in the data at first glance. This enables them to make predictions, classify or make decisions on their own, even over new information they have never seen before.
The goal is to get them to get progressively better at what they do as the data comes in.
## Deep learning
Deep learning is a type of machine learning that teaches AI to recognise patterns in data using neural networks - structures inspired by the human brain.
The more "layers" (neurons) a model has, the more complex things it can understand. While classical Machine Learning often makes do with smaller amounts of data and simpler algorithms, deep learning needs larger amounts of data and more powerful computing.

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