Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A common explanation for these misfires is that humans, not equations, are the root of the problem. Algorithms mimic the data they ...

In a world run by computers, there is one algorithm that stands above all the rest. It powers search engines, encrypts your data, guides rockets, runs simulations, and makes the modern digital ...

Daniel D. Gutierrez, Editor-in-Chief & Resident Data Scientist, insideAI News, is a practicing data scientist who’s been working with data long before the field came in vogue. He is especially excited ...

Companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments design algorithms to learn and predict user preferences. They embed these algorithms in recommendation systems that help consumers make choices ...

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 ...