Very basically, a machine learning algorithm is given a “teaching set” of data, then asked to use that data to answer a question. For example, you might provide a computer a teaching set of ...

Fans have discovered that machine learning is the perfect tool to improve the graphics of classic games. The technique being used is known as “AI upscaling.” In essence, you feed an algorithm ...

Could your next editor be a machine? Today, dozens of companies ... At the heart of all of these offerings is a series of algorithms, powered here by FactSquared, that analyze human speech and ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are ... While he’s on much firmer ground when explaining how machine learning works and deconstructing the systems ...

Most game updates require teams of designers and coders working for months or even years, according to a fascinating new feature in The Verge, but now many are using machine learning to expedite ...

As Domingos goes on to explain ... is that algorithms know so much about us while we know so little about them. Auerbach has argued that the operations of sophisticated machine learning algorithms ...

To arrive at their decisions, machine-learning algorithms automatically build complex models based on big data sets, so that even the people using them may not be able to explain why or how a ...