Imagine you decide to sell your home. You contact a realtor and ask them to value your house. However, if the realtor doesn’t offer any insight into how they arrive at their estimate—for example, what ...

In October, Amazon had to discontinue an artificial intelligence–powered recruiting tool after it discovered the system was biased against female applicants. In 2016, a ProPublica investigation ...

Supervised learning algorithms learn from labeled data, where the desired output is known. These algorithms aim to build a model that can predict the output for new, unseen input data. Let’s take a ...

From the physical world to the virtual world, algorithms are seemingly everywhere. David J. Malan, Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University, has been challenged to explain the science of ...

The Digital Services Act “will force tech companies to take greater responsibility for content that appears on their platforms. New obligations include removing illegal content and goods more quickly, ...

Instagram has introduced a new feature called “Your Algorithm”, giving users more control over the videos that appear in their Reels feed. The update allows people to see which topics Instagram ...

The algorithm that powers TikTok’s “For You” page has long been a source of fascination and suspicion. Fans often remark on the app’s eerie accuracy, while TikTok critics have at times speculated the ...