Machine learning has the potential to transform the way organisations interact with the world, to move faster and to provide better customer experience. But while machine learning's long-term potential certainly looks bright, its adoption in the enterprise may advance more slowly than originally thought. Part of the challenge is a lack of understanding around what machine learning is. Machine learning is an application or subset of AI, which is generally thought of as higher-order decision-making intelligence. Machine learning is really about applying mathematics to different domains.