Social media algorithms usually promote biases toward white, thin bodies. Pinterest is using machine learning to surface images of all shapes and sizes.

AI programs usually master either information-perfect games like chess or information-imperfect games like poker, but "Student of Games" is a general algorithm that can master both types.

Algorithm: A mathematical process run on data to produce an output. There are different types of algorithms for different machine learning problems.

The most commonly cited different types of algorithms are: Classification: These algorithms take a dataset and assign each element to a fixed set of classes.

Big future advances may well depend on inventing different types of algorithms—and different kinds of chips that squeeze more performance out of them, he says.

There are different types of machine learning, including supervised learning (labels define the "ground truth"), unsupervised learning (no labels), and reinforcement learning (the machine learning ...