For our getting-dressed example, a machine learning algorithm would be the equivalent of your remembering past decisions about what to wear, knowing how comfortable you feel wearing each item, and ...

1. An algorithm is a set of very specific instructions How to bake a cake, find the sum of two plus two, or even run a country according to the U.S. Constitution are all examples of algorithms. Why?

Algorithms are proprietary though, and monopolistic within their context (a customer can’t select the algorithm they want to use to assess their credit, for instance).

Click here for some other examples of algorithms getting offensive. Just because you can use an algorithm to make slogans doesn’t mean they’ll turn out the way you’d hoped. That’s a lesson ...

Doctors use algorithms to help guide their medical care, such as whether a patient should get breast cancer screening or whether they should undergo a cesarean section to give birth — but many ...

Last month, Twitter users uncovered a disturbing example of bias on the platform: An image-detection algorithm designed to optimize photo previews was cropping out Black faces in favor of white ...

a, Diagram of a point-cloud CGH algorithm, showing typical axis conventions. Every point of the ship model point cloud creates a point-spread function on the hologram plane (color code: hue ...

Examples of algorithms resulting in unethical outcomes are commonplace. For organizations, employing unexamined—potentially unethical—algorithms can result in the digitalization of biases and ...

The news is full of these examples, ranging from computer-judged beauty contests that took points off for dark skin to AI-driven recruiting algorithms that were biased against women.