Scientific American

Algorithms really do create political polarization—and this AI tool let users avoid it

People often blame social media algorithms that prioritize extreme content for increasing political polarization, but this effect has been difficult to prove. Only the platform owners have access to ...
The Conversation

Algorithms that customize marketing to your phone could also influence your views on warfare

Justin Pelletier is affiliated with the United States Army Reserve. The views expressed are those of the author and do not reflect the official policy or position of the U.S. Army, Department of War, ...
NBC4 Columbus

Ohio bill aims to ban A.I.-driven pricing algorithms that exploit competitor data

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Bipartisan Ohio lawmakers are reviving an effort to regulate pricing algorithms, software that often uses artificial intelligence to adjust prices, rent and wages in order to ...
Gizmodo

X’s Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find

In case you had any doubt, Elon Musk’s X has an algorithm that favors conservative content posted by political activists over liberal content or posts by traditional news media accounts, according to ...
Seeking Alpha

AI, algorithms, and airlines: Why different people see different airfares

Surveillance-style pricing is emerging as a flashpoint in the airline industry, as carriers accelerate their use of artificial intelligence and granular customer data to set fares and regulators ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Autonomous Driving: Assessment Of YOLO Algorithms (RMIT et al.)

A new technical paper titled “Advances in You Only Look Once (YOLO) algorithms for lane and object detection in autonomous vehicles” was published by RMIT University, Kyungpook National University, ...
Engadget

Meta turned Threads algorithm complaints into an official feature

Threads users have been complaining about its recommendation algorithm pretty much since the beginning of the platform. At some point, this turned into a meme, with users writing posts jokingly ...
CNBC

Meta launches AI algorithm personalization feature for Threads

Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called "Dear Algo" that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms. Threads users will be able to tell the Dear Algo tool what kinds ...
The Verge

Threads’ new ‘Dear Algo’ feature lets you tell the algorithm what you want to see

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. If you want to tweak what’s on your feed, you can make a post and ask. If you want to tweak what’s on your feed, ...
Engadget

The Morning After: Meta turned Threads algorithm complaints into an official feature

Threads users have complained about its recommendation algorithm since the dawn of time 2023. Users even started writing posts addressed to the algorithm, specifying the topics they wanted to see more ...
Phys.org

Q&A: Algorithm achieves near end-to-end genome assembly without ultra-long DNA sequencing

Haoyu Cheng, Ph.D., assistant professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine, has developed a new algorithm capable of building complete human genomes using standard ...