AI-powered systems have swept through business, surfing a rising wave of occasionally justified hype. When they're good, they're really good—take, for example, a neural net designed to help Japanese ...

For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency is the same.

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...