An insight into the way machines make meaning. A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist ...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. “The Algorithm” is impenetrable. It’s mysterious, it’s all-knowing, it’s ...

AI boffins are interested that a computer outfit has come up with an algorithm which could mean the end of writers. Code, penned by Narrative Science, can turn sports data and knock it into passable ...

Machine learning is all about getting computers to “understand” new concepts, but it’s still a pretty inefficient process, often requiring hundreds of examples for training. That may soon change, ...

Former DeepMind scientists raise $5 million for Hiverge, a startup developing AI to improve code.

Sep. 28—When Mark Jensenius was a baby, his family lived near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. His mother, Linda, would take him for walks, and he would look up at the planes passing ...