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Algorithm

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Algorithm.

Video playlists about Algorithm

The inherent bias in our technology

These talks reveal how our technology often reflects the unconscious biases and prejudices we hold.

Statistically speaking …

Want a different perspective of the world? Get a better, more friendly grasp of statistics -- one of the most understood and misused tools in modern society.

Math in unexpected places

These talks are here to set the record straight and illuminate the unexpected ways formulas and fractions influence everything, from love and war to origami and coral reefs.

The influence of algorithms

Algorithms play a big part in our day-to-day lives. From search engines to architecture, explore how these formulas affect the way we view and interact with the world around us.

Talks about Algorithm

Adam Aleksic

Are we cooked? How social media shapes your language

Jennifer Golbeck

Is AI progress stuck?

Ramin Hasani

How a worm could save humanity from bad AI

Karen Lellouche Tordjman

Siri, Alexa, Google ... what comes next?

Jeff Dean

AI isn't as smart as you think -- but it could be

Max Hawkins

I let algorithms randomize my life for two years

Mainak Mazumdar

How bad data keeps us from good AI

Jamila Gordon

How AI can help shatter barriers to equality

Yaël Eisenstat

Dear Facebook, this is how you're breaking democracy

Yann LeCun

Deep learning, neural networks and the future of AI

Sylvain Duranton

How humans and AI can work together to create better businesses

Mariana Lin

How we can bring AI personalities to life

Leila Pirhaji

The medical potential of AI and metabolites

Janelle Shane

The danger of AI is weirder than you think

Margaret Heffernan

The human skills we need in an unpredictable world

Ayanna Howard

Why we need to build robots we can trust

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Exclusive articles about Algorithm

Why algorithms can’t save us from trolls and hate speech

By making the Internet as weightless and as frictionless as possible, we made our lives easier. But now, the whole world is suffering the consequences, says Jaron Lanier.

Posted Apr 2018

Justice in the age of big data

Justice should be blind, but the predictive policing software used in much of the US has bias and misunderstanding programmed right into it, says data scientist Cathy O’Neil.

Posted Apr 2017

The rise of the useless class

Historian Yuval Noah Harari offers a bracing prediction: just as mass industrialization created the working class, the AI revolution will create a new unworking class.

Posted Feb 2017