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Module 1: Introduction

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(a) Who is called the father of Machine Learning?
(i) Geoffrey Hill
(ii) Geoffrey Chaucer
(iii) Geoffrey Everest Hinton
(iv) Tom Mitchell

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Answer: (iv) Tom Mitchell

Explanation:

  • Tom Mitchell is widely cited as the father of Machine Learning in academic curricula (author of Machine Learning, McGraw-Hill, 1997) who gave the formal definition: "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."
  • Arthur Samuel (1959) coined the term Machine Learning and is historically the true pioneer, but he is not listed in options.
  • Geoffrey Everest Hinton is the Godfather of Deep Learning, not general ML.
  • Options (i) Geoffrey Hill and (ii) Geoffrey Chaucer are distractors (poets).

In the context of this MCQ, expected answer is Tom Mitchell. If strictly historical, Arthur Samuel would be correct.

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