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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
"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
This is a conservative estimate, since the algorithm was able to identify only the most egregious form of cheating—in which teachers systematically changed students’ answers—and not the many subtler ways a teacher might cheat.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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Social-media algorithms now drive content more based on users’ interest and less according to a creator’s follower count, boosting the reach of small creators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 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
Here's what algorithms do, and the arguments around their effects.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
Less controversial is the contention that there are no clear-cut, easy algorithms that allow us to distinguish science from pseudoscience in all cases.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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