IDEAS Algorithms may never really figure us out — thank goodness Life turns out to be messier than computerized decision-making systems usually can account for.

For example, in November another team at MIT (with many of the same researchers) published a study demonstrating how Google’s InceptionV3 image classifier could be duped into thinking that a 3-D ...

Social media algorithms, in their commonly known form, are now 15 years old. They were born with Facebook’s introduction of ranked, personalised news feeds in 2009 and have transformed how we ...

Google: Our Search Algorithms Don't Try To Figure Out Reading Levels Jan 30, 2018 - 7:57 am 8 — by Barry Schwartz ...

Examples abound of AI systems behaving badly. Last year, Amazon was forced to ditch a hiring algorithm that was found to be gender biased; Google was left red-faced after the autocomplete ...