WHEN machine learning algorithms that replace newspaper reporters became fodder for a recent episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, it was clear that the technology had gone mainstream. But as ...

This is the question posed by Pedro Domingos in his book The Master Algorithm:How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World. The book provides an in-depth overview of machine ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Computers and the algorithms they run are precise, perfect, meticulously programmed, and austere.

Algorithms. Is there anything they can’t do? Yes. Tons of stuff, but they remain at the heart of the internet as we know it. Much of what we are exposed to online courtesy of search engines or Siri or ...

Excerpted from "The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World" Machine learning plays a part in every stage of your life. If you studied online for the ...