Algorithms and flowcharts are two tools ... These algorithms are usually simple steps that are then combined and ... For example, an algorithm designed to take two numbers from a user and add them ...

In his book The Master Algorithm, Pedro Domingos offers a masterfully simple definition: “An algorithm is,” Domingos writes, “a sequence of instructions telling a computer what to do.” ...

To clear things up, I drew you this flowchart on the back of an envelope so you can work out whether something is using AI or not. This originally appeared in our AI newsletter The Algorithm.