I've been working in data and artificial intelligence (AI) since it was just called statistics and applied math. But over the past decade, AI has approached a troubling inflection point. Notably, the ...

New information about how various factors influence YouTube’s video recommendation algorithm is revealed by members of the team responsible for working on it. Having only been implemented in 2016, we ...

China's increasingly powerful cybersecurity regulator last Friday released sweeping draft rules for regulating use of so-called recommendation algorithms. That's the technology that has helped China's ...

In the age of fake news and radicalization, the real enemy is not content itself. It's the algorithm pushing that content up to the top of users' 'recommended' lists. That's according to software ...

Google helps us think, Facebook finds us friends, and Pandora plays our own personalized soundtrack. It’s hard to say whether the computer algorithms that these services use to anticipate our needs ...