Machine-learning algorithms are responsible for the vast majority of the artificial intelligence advancements and applications you hear about. (For more background, check out our first flowchart ...

Courts use algorithms to help determine sentencing, but random people get the same results. Numbers aren’t always as impartial as they appear. By Sara Chodosh. Published Jan 18, 2018 9:00 PM EST.

Randomized algorithms have become an essential tool in solving linear systems and least squares problems, particularly in large-scale applications. These algorithms leverage randomness to improve ...

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.