It was a striking story. “Machine Bias,” the headline read, and the teaser proclaimed: “There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.” ...

Algorithmic systems have a way of making mistakes or leading to undesired consequences. Here are five principles to help technologists deal with that. Algorithms are now used throughout the public and ...

An algorithm is a procedure used for solving a problem or performing a computation. Algorithms act as an exact list of instructions that conduct specified actions step by step in either hardware- or ...

Algorithms now make lots of decisions, but they have their own biases, writes Wharton’s Kartik Hosanagar in his new book. When we buy something on Amazon or watch something on Netflix, we think it’s ...

The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, machine learning, the cloud, quantum computing and more. One word in particular is used throughout computing – algorithm. In the most ...

What are machine learning algorithms? A machine learning algorithm is the method by which the AI system conducts its task, generally predicting output values from given input data. The two main ...