Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

Matt J. Kusner is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at University College London, and a fellow at The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK. Joshua R. Loftus is an assistant ...

Feed algorithms are not politically neutral. According to a recent study published in the journal Nature, using the algorithmic feed on X shifted users' political views toward conservative positions ...

How does Google's search actually work? The answer is both simple and complicated, demonstrable and secret. Every time it tweaks its algorithm, it tests the changes with a group of "search quality ...

Machine learning and deep learning have been widely embraced, and even more widely misunderstood. In this article, I’ll step back and explain both machine learning and deep learning in basic terms, ...

Google has said that its most recent major search update, the inclusion of the BERT algorithm, will help it better understand the intent behind users’ search queries, which should mean more relevant ...

Artificial intelligence has given us algorithms capable of recognizing faces, diagnosing disease, and of course, crushing computer games. But even the smartest algorithms can sometimes behave in ...

That question in the headline was the challenge posed by a group of open knowledge junkies in Germany who wanted to understand how a person’s Schufa was calculated. Schufa is a credit bureau that ...

A health care algorithm makes black patients substantially less likely than their white counterparts to receive important medical treatment. The major flaw affects millions of patients, and was just ...