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.

And now we have Hannah Fry's Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms, which seeks to find a sensible path somewhere between tossing algorithms at everything and running them over with a ...

"Algorithms can have errors," he said when we spoke by phone this week. "Significant errors, like this one, have to be addressed." Years of trying to get them addressed have had little effect.

If your curious how awesome your own photos are, you can test them out on their LaMem Demo page. Once you upload a photo, you’ll receive a score between zero and one.

People have characteristic aspects, even if you look at them from the back,” LeCun says. “For example, you can recognise Mark Zuckerberg very easily, because he always wears a gray T-shirt.” ...