“The algorithm then uses these examples to estimate the probability of whether a new message is advertising or not. The big difference is that in conventional programming, the human being defines the ...

She and her team took nearly 50,000 recipes and 2 million reviews from allrecipes.com and then hacked up an algorithm to extract out all the ingredients, cooking methods and nutritional profiles.

The recipe then tells you step by step what to do to prepare the dish correctly,” explains algorithm expert Sebastian Schelter, who researches data management and machine learning at the University of ...