Algorithm

But editors and journalists in Bosnia tell BIRN they struggle with its inconsistency in content moderation and a lack of transparency about its algorithms. And when they call Facebook for clarification, too often they are left hanging.

The drones take direction from an algorithm that helps them chart their surroundings in real-time

“The problem we have online is that an algorithm decides what we want to see, which ends up creating a simplistic, binary view of society”

Horror literature fans may not have noticed, but now there is a new master of horror stories. She is called Shelley, but she is not the popular English writer  who created Frankenstein, but is ... a powerful algorithm developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

THEORY OF CONNECTIVITY

The human brain is the most sophisticated organ in the human body. The things that the brain can do, and how it does them, have even inspired a model of artificial intelligence (AI). Now, a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience shows how human intelligence may be a product of a basic algorithm.

There are some photographs such as that of Aylan Kurdi lying dead on the shores of Turkey that go viral, and yet others are fast forgotten. MIT’s ComputerMIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have created an algorithm they claim can predict how memorable or forgettable an image will be.