In April, OpenAI's popular ChatGPT hit a milestone of a billion active weekly users, as artificial intelligence continued its explosion in popularity.

Online algorithms are designed to make decisions sequentially, without complete knowledge of future inputs. In many real-world applications—from scheduling and resource allocation to network ...

When scientists test algorithms that sort or classify data they often turn to a trusted tool called Normalized Mutual ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms have become integral to our modern lives, influencing everything from online ads to recommendations on streaming platforms. While they may not be inherently ...

During my time working with tech companies navigating the early boom of AI adoption, I noticed a strange duality. Developers proudly open-sourced breakthrough models one week—and raced to patent their ...

It feels strange to think back to a time when we weren’t so concerned with social media algorithms. To the layperson, algorithms were just a nebulous mix of code that we knew controlled what we were ...

These days, much of our lives seem dictated by algorithms. Our streaming services decide which movies and TV shows would be a good fit for us based on our previous viewing history and apparent tastes.