But when it comes to decision-making software, three main things keep the public in the dark. One, the very complexity of the computer language programs makes them hard to explore.

Forensic algorithms are also not required to meet any federal standards and are often owned by private companies that may wield trade secret privileges to block anyone from seeing how their ...

The geometry of decision-making in individuals and collectives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2021; 118 (50): e2102157118 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2102157118 ...

U.S. judicial and court systems have also begun incorporating decision-making algorithms in a handful of operations, like risk assessment analysis of defendants, determinations about pretrial ...

"Algorithms are the new arbiters of human decision-making in almost any area we can imagine, from watching a movie (Affectiva emotion recognition) to buying a house (Zillow.com) to self-driving ...

If I got a 50 or lower, I would skip the reading to honor the “exploration” component of the decision-making algorithm, but I didn’t really want to. Apparently, shirking your reading is only ...

Quantopian claims to do just that. It says it provides a “level playing field” by giving “talented people everywhere” the chance to write investment algorithms. McAfee is impressed.

Menka Sanghvi, author of ‘Your Best Digital Life’ and expert in mindfulness and digital habits, explores how we’ve outsourced decision-making to machines without noticing. Drawing on ne… ...

The study offers the first evidence yet of a common algorithm that governs decision-making across species and suggests that fundamental geometric principles can explain how, and why, animals move ...