The algorithm, called COMPAS, could single out those who would go on to reoffend with roughly the same accuracy for each race. But it guessed wrong about twice as often for black people.

It works through a proprietary algorithm that considers some of the answers to a 137-item questionnaire. ... Hey, I asked 20 random people online if this person will recidivate and they said yes.

Despite that new algorithm, Johansson said that users still tell Spotify developers that the shuffle functionality is not random. And it isn’t – but it’s calculated to feel more random, not ...

Does AI tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Who should we listen to when deciding whether a criminal will reoffend: a sophisticated algorithm, or random people on the internet?

An “unbiased” computer algorithm used for informing judicial decisions appears to be no better than the assessments of a random group of people, according to Receive emails about upcoming NOVA ...

Generating a string of random numbers is easy. The hard part is proving that they’re random. As Dilbert creator Scott Adams once pointed out, “that’s the problem with randomness: you can ...

Smith’s algorithm begins by stringing together a few words from an open-source dictionary and googling them. It grabs the resulting links in a random order, and saves them in a database for ...

But even with the module removed from the page, the algorithm behind it will still be learning new ways to reflect the people who shape it — similar to its more verbal cousin, Microsoft’s teen ...

NIST (the National Institute of Standards and Technology, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has formally removed Dual_EC_DRBG from its draft guidance on random number generators. This ...