Interviewing the algorithm: How reporting and reverse engineering could build a beat to understand the code that influences us Nick Diakopoulos explains why journalists needs to start thinking more ...

His argument is that with the rise of machine learning (ML) -- a type of artificial intelligence in which you feed a machine massive amounts of data and an algorithm “learns” how to do things ...

And because DeepCoder is essentially a deep learning algorithm, every time it's given a new problem, it gets better at combining lines from source codes.

When Christopher Steiner, the 35-year-old cofounder of Aisle50, a Y Combinator startup offering online grocery deals, set out to write the book Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World ...

Algorithms are invisible pieces of code that tell a computer how to accomplish a specific task. Think of it as a recipe for a computer: An algorithm tells the computer what to do in order to ...