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algorithm

[al-guh-rith-uhm] / ˈæl gəˌrɪð əm /


NOUN
program
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Keep in mind that there’s no hard evidence that LLMs, which are essentially souped-up versions of the predictive text algorithm on your phone, are going to assemble into something so complex and godlike.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2026

For instance, an AI model could “create a better training algorithm and then apply this method to create a new model that is even better at coding or reasoning.”

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

"We adapted an algorithm for tracking weather systems so that it could detect rapidly consecutive cyclones in the Arctic," explains Lars Aue.

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

Oura had previously claimed the 95% accuracy, but shifted to a new machine-learning algorithm in 2023, after the study’s research concluded.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 6, 2026

He took Goldman’s algorithm, presented it to the doctors in the Cook County ED and the doctors in the Department of Medicine, and announced that he was holding a bake-off.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell

And social-media algorithms now drive content more based on users’ interest and less according to a creator’s follower count.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

"The underlying algorithms that we were using for most of these robotic simulations they hark back to the 1970s and 1980s, but those algorithms are not really brilliant fits for GPUs," Storey says.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

We can imagine algorithms with godlike intelligence but not AI diplomacy?

From Salon Sep. 16, 2026

The algorithms needed to carry out this processing were developed in collaboration with Johannes Kofler's team at JKU Linz.

From Science Daily Sep. 13, 2026

He also wrote a book about the Hindu numeral system, which allowed the new style of numbers to spread quickly through the Arab world—along with algorithms, the tricks for multiplying and dividing Hindu numerals quickly.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife




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