Late last year, the Justice Department joined the growing list of agencies to discover that algorithms don’t heed good intentions. An algorithm known as PATTERN placed tens of thousands of federal ...

Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his vision ...

Tyler Lacoma has spent more than 10 years testing tech and studying the latest web tool to help keep readers current. He's here for you when you need a how-to guide, explainer, review, or list of the ...

An insight into the way machines make meaning. A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist ...

People who played the “Prisoner’s Dilemma” were less likely to cooperate when the other player was a male human or AI, and ...

“To me, an algorithm is any piece of automated code that accepts some number of variables and data, [then] uses those variables and data to make decisions. But that’s the boring computer science ...

I was halfway through a master’s in Computer Science when my vision changed. I was working as a data scientist during my summer off from school, and I had friends who said things like “I’m at a local ...

New Yorkers scrolling through holiday deals are suddenly bumping into a blunt new line of text at checkout: “This price was set by an algorithm.” The message is not a marketing gimmick, it is the ...

When someone walks into an emergency room with symptoms of a stroke, every second matters. But today, diagnosing the type of ...