Each function of a program can be called an algorithm, which represents a set of rules or steps that is followed to complete a calculation ... offers some flowchart programming examples.

To clear things up, I drew you this flowchart on the back of an envelope so you can work out whether something is using AI or not. This originally appeared in our AI newsletter The Algorithm.

Machine vision is an important example, since it also demonstrates the way algorithms often learn how to do their jobs better by messing them up, sometimes very publicly. Those errors can be silly ...