For a layperson, this is an accessible and directionally correct definition. For...

		textlapse on Oct 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: USGS uses machine learning to show large lithium p... For a layperson, this is an accessible and directionally correct definition. For the HN audience, of course this is 'technically incorrect'. The article was written for the (larger) general public. I am also glad they didn't squeeze in a word salad of LLMs and quantum technology and instead stuck to 'it's just standard ML'.

The only informational dividable from the statement is "we used a computer to analyze data".