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algorithm

[al-guh-rith-uhm] / ˈæl gəˌrɪð əm /


NOUN
program
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"Over the last couple of months my whole TikTok and Instagram is just people learning to drive. It's like my algorithm knows, it's quite scary," she said.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

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

Users can choose to opt in to having their default feed include personalised content recommended by the algorithm.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Once she created her own algorithm to sort out the irrelevant photos from the streetcams, she had a full complement of surveillance videos.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

Sumbul Desai, Apple’s vice president of health and fitness, told me that the Apple Watch algorithms for step-counting have been updated to be more accurate, even on older models.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 19, 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

“I can write some algorithms to help your search. I can create a visual recognition program to see if their faces pop up in anyone else’s social media. I can help a lot.”

From "City Spies" by James Ponti




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