You can follow these link to know the difference to some extent:   
   http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/e/expert_system.html   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_learning   
   and   
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence   
   Hope this helps...   
   Regards   
   Nataraj   
      
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