In August, a group of Black former NFL players filed a lawsuit against the league claiming its system for awarding compensation for brain injuries was racially tilted. The suit blamed the NFL’s use of ...

In August 2022 the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a notice of proposed rulemaking prohibiting covered entities, which include health care providers and health plans, from ...

Anyone who has taken a basic computer science class has undoubtedly spent time devising a sorting algorithm—code that will take an unordered list of items and put them in ascending or descending order ...

The perils of leaving important decisions to computer algorithms are pretty easily imagined (see, e.g., “Minority Report,” “I, Robot,” “War Games”). In recent years, however, algorithms’ job ...

The Cleveland Clinic's population health team has found a way to deal with all of the data necessary to target at-risk and vulnerable populations. The team uses algorithms to give them a risk ...

Since widespread protests over racial inequality began, IBM announced it would cancel its facial recognition programs to advance racial equity in law enforcement. Amazon suspended police use of its ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) can transform just about any business – from providing customers with products and services they really want to streamlining internal processes. The barriers to entry can ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

One of the most challenging and revolutionary things artificial intelligence (AI) can do is speak, write, listen, and understand human language. Natural language processing (NLP) is a form of AI that ...