Facebook’s origin story has been told again and again — 20 years ago a group of ambitious Harvard sophomores created the site from their dorm room that would soon go on to change the world. But in ...
Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives. What Amsterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm taught me about fair ...
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 ...
I’m not a programmer. But I’ve been creating my own software tools with help from artificial intelligence. Credit...Photo Illustration by Ben Denzer; Source Photographs by Sue Bernstein and Paul ...
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 ...
Users of Grab, the Philippines' most popular ride-hailing app, are at the mercy of an opaque algorithm that calculates service prices. When they book a ride, the amount to be paid for the distance ...