Now, McDonald's team and the Ovarian Cancer Institute are using ensemble-based machine learning algorithms to predict how patients will respond to cancer-fighting drugs with high accuracy rates.

Machine-learning algorithms are responsible for the vast majority of the artificial intelligence advancements and applications you hear about. (For more background, check out our first flowchart ...

Machine-learning algorithms find and apply patterns in data. ... 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.