person
Tom M. Mitchell
CMU founders university professor; ML textbook author
Carnegie Mellon University Founders University Professor and former founding head of CMU's Machine Learning Department. Author of the canonical 'Machine Learning' (1997) textbook.
current Founders University Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
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Governance firstendorses
Lead with regulation, treaties, liability regimesArgues machine learning has matured enough that society needs strong public-interest oversight and regulation; signed major open letters on responsible AI.
“A computer program is said to learn from experience E with respect to some class of tasks T and performance measure P, if its performance at tasks in T, as measured by P, improves with experience E.”
Context: Mitchell's canonical definition of machine learning, foundational to the field.
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