Viewed as a kind of sentient meddler, “the algorithm” is often positioned as the secretive puppeteer pulling the strings of the social media space. Netflix specials like The Social Dilemma and Black ...

Not all homelessness can be addressed the same way — different situations need different solutions, and different solutions mean different costs. In Santa Clara County, California, 47% of the county's ...

If Evil Season 3 Episode 6 taught us anything, it's that we should be terrified of the intrusive nature of social media and viral video apps. "The Demon of Algorithms" is a little less personal than ...

From phone apps and GPS maps to music recommendations and artificial intelligence, our lives are increasingly molded by algorithms. Sets of instructions for completing tasks or solving problems, ...

Whether or not you have an analytics background, in this digital age algorithms are everywhere … in how ambulances determine their route to the hospital, in elections … you name it. INFORMS member Gah ...

For fruits and veggies, there’s organic. For coffee and clothes, there’s fair trade. Now, algorithms have their own certification mark: a seal of approval that designates them as accurate, unbiased, ...

From Google's commitment to never pursue AI applications that might cause harm, to Microsoft's "AI principles", through IBM's defense of fairness and transparency in all algorithmic matters: big tech ...

The scariest part of this week’s Evil isn’t the wannabe possessed girl chewing glass. Or the seriously messed-up mom traumatizing her kids in exchange for online likes. It’s actually the relatability ...

There is a certain place, where the algorithm and the human mind have to come to meet. Google has found that place many times in its past, and has just found it once again in a very interesting story.

A rhetorical question for you. Let’s say you’re an AI scientist, and you’ve found the holy grail of your field — you figured out how to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI). That’s a truly ...