For Bayesians, creating the master algorithm boils down to efficiently implementing Bayes's theorem, a mathematical rule for updating our degree of belief in a hypothesis when we see new evidence.

Artificial intelligence permeates everything at Facebook, the social network’s head of applied machine learning says—and humans are bound to understand Facebook less than ever.

But as Pedro Domingos points out in The Master Algorithm, machines that learn have been deeply involved with our lives for a while. If you use Google, Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, Yelp, Xbox or just ...

Ray Kurzweil is a famous futurist who's always banked on the coming of the singularity — when artificial intelligence overcomes human intelligence.

For nearly 30 years, Pedro Domingos has been working within artificial intelligence communities, both as a researcher and a developer. In that time, the University of Washington professor has ...