Hello World, book review: Algorithms, and how to live with them Human and machine working together can do better than either on their own, says mathematics lecturer Hannah Fry.

Each image in this collection has been retouched by five different photographers, and Google and MIT’s algorithms used this data to learn what sort of improvements to make to different photos.

“Algorithms can have errors”: One man’s quest to purge horrific pictures from his Google results When Googling your own business name leads to images of charred human corpses … ...

They are formalized statements of human-derived policies and priorities, without which code could not be written. The algorithms are designed, by humans, to interpret a company’s priorities and ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims their new MemNet algorithm can predict how memorable your photos are nearly as accurately as a human, and you can test it out for yourself.

But what if your face is hidden from view? An experimental algorithm out of Facebook’s artificial intelligence lab can recognise people in photographs even when it can’t see their faces.