「アルゴリズム」という言葉を知っていても、改めて「アルゴリズムって何？」と聞かれるとうまく答えられないという人は多いはず。アルゴリズムという言葉の意味や、PCが登場する前から人間の生活に息づいてきたというアルゴリズムの正体について ...

アルゴリズムという言葉はGoogle検索やSNSでの分析や、特定のタスクを実行して処理するプログラム、人工知能の開発などで私たちの生活に不可欠です。だれもが聞いたことある「アルゴリズム(Algorithm)」というワードがどこから来たのかという由来と歴史に ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Genius does not shrink at the borders of the system, the system must grow to accommodate it. The ‘system’ in question — such ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...