In the gig economy algorithms have been used to allocate work for some time. Take Uber and Deliveroo. For workers it offers a degree of autonomy – the opportunity to turn work down, choose when to ...

In 2018, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero program taught itself the games of chess, shogi, and Go using machine learning and a special algorithm to determine the best moves to win a game within a ...

The humans in the loop A perfectly good algorithm might fail because of variability in human behaviour, both by health-care professionals and by people receiving treatments.

Debugging is a very important part of writing a good algorithm or computer program and it works best when we check for bugs as we go along, rather than at the end. Let's think about an everyday ...

What you pay for a Delta Air Lines ticket may soon depend less on timing and more on what an algorithm thinks you’re willing to spend. About 3 percent of Delta’s domestic ticket prices are now ...

Delta hopes to use AI-driven pricing for 20% of tickets by year's end Senator Ruben Gallego called Delta's practice 'predatory pricing' The new AI-pricing strategy offers a glimpse into the future ...

Fetcherr’s website says its algorithms tailor prices based on factors like customer lifetime value, past purchase behaviors and “the real-time context of each booking inquiry,” all of which ...

Agents have to read hundreds of manuscripts before a book is selected to be published. This longstanding tradition might be totally disrupted due to new technology from a German company that uses ...