What makes for a good application of machine learning? This is a discussion of the various factors that come in to play while making the decision to incorporate machine learning into a task. Some factors include (but are not limited to)The current status of an application (i.e. does an application to accomplish this task already exist?)The task to which machine learning will be appliedThe current state/capabilities/limitation of machine learning technologies (in general - not specific technology stacks)Examples of machine learning tasks and what results a user can expect