Three heads are better than one. Versions of this proverb are found worldwide and throughout history. Yet in the race to ...

The impacts of social media algorithms are manifold: Algorithmically powered newsfeeds on social media threaten to destabilize countries and governments around the world, deeply impact mental health, ...

AI algorithms exhibit racial bias in job candidate screening, and they discriminate more frequently against those applying for multiple jobs at different companies, according to Stanford-led ...

Abstract: Existing studies for automatic waveform recognition of overlapping signals have mostly been conducted in a supervised manner. Although demonstrating superior performance in recent years, ...

This article was co-authored with Emma Myer, a student at Washington and Lee University who studies Cognitive/Behavioral Science and Strategic Communication. In today’s digital age, social media has ...

Abstract: Aiming at the problem of weakly supervised learning in traditional Chinese painting image classification, a novel multi-instance learning algorithm based on Long and Short-Term Memory neural ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

Algorithms, which are just sets of instructions expressed in code, are harder to restrict than physical goods. But governments, including the U.S., have long tried to prevent their export. The ...

There is an increasing concern about the influence algorithms exert in modern societies and the potential threats they pose to democracy. Some algorithms are considered as of high risk, as they have ...