It even correctly estimated that songs from Let It Be were recorded before those on Abbey Road, although Abbey Road was released first. The algorithm also worked for the albums of Queen, U2, and ABBA.

To construct the 6,291 microgenres in its database, McDonald says, Spotify uses social data—how listeners of the same artists sort those artists’ songs and who else they listen to.

Technology DeepMind AI's new way to sort objects could speed up global computing Sorting algorithms are basic functions used constantly by computers around the world, so an improved one created by ...