What does machine language actually mean? Find out inside PCMag's comprehensive tech and computer-related encyclopedia.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, ignoring every big tech advance in the past decade, you’ve probably heard of machine learning.

As for programming, this machine is as low-level as it gets. Nothing but 6502 machine language here, entered manually with the toggle switches, or via an externally programmed ROM.

Machine learning allows an AI to change the topography of its decision landscape. An AI is software: an algorithm or logical model, written in a programming language.

Today machine learning is being used in a number of areas. Google’s self-driving car was developed using machine learning and today machines can lip read faster than humans.

An assembly language is a type of low-level programming language that is intended to communicate directly with a computer’s hardware.

Natural language processing is a ubiquitous form of AI technology.