Who wants to be run through an algorithm, spitting out a profile that insults our self-concepts?
What happens when a firm with fewer controls in place lets such an algorithm go?
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After all, an algorithm has no need to generate income to support itself and its dependents.
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Somewhere deep in the cyber matrix, my little make-and-model search had triggered an algorithm.
He eventually came up with an algorithm that showed him the path to realizing his goal.
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All of the data is processed through an algorithm that creates our power ranking.
It created an algorithm to understand which tweets skewed positive and which were negative.
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To make sense of it all, Dunnhumby's analysts cooked up an algorithm called the rolling ball.
For example, it suggests new friends using an algorithm that looks at existing ones.
Such an algorithm could also be instrumental in identifying psychiatric conditions that impact the speech centers of the brain.
Smart Scheduling developed an algorithm predicting which patients will fail to show up at their medical appointments.
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Google has sought to clone the key traits of its founders through an algorithm-driven hiring questionnaire.
It uses an algorithm that provides ancestry-centric results that may not show up in a Google search.
These are curated using an algorithm: Twitter studies the accounts you follow and serves up similar stories.
But it allows you to take those preferences and create an algorithm you can plug factors into.
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Could the next book you read or publish be written by an algorithm or by a machine?
Lieberman's students Birago Jones and Karthik Dinakar are working on an algorithm that would automatically detect bullying language.
An algorithm tracks the velocity of FORBES content shared across the social Web.
But just like it has gotten easier to build a webpage, it has become easier to code an algorithm.
For years Google has ranked Web pages according to an algorithm called PageRank.
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Next up, there's Quick Touch Panel, an algorithm that detects and analyzes finger gestures to make the panel more responsive.
He set up a model using an algorithm based on the Monte Carlo optimization method used in statistics and mathematics.
They sat down with me as I sketched out a mockup in Powerpoint and attempted to build an algorithm in Excel.
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It measures what HeartMath calls coherence an algorithm applied to heart-rate variability, which the company says can reflect emotional states and stress levels.
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Finally, an algorithm was created to match the sound of the headphones to the sound of the studio as closely as possible.
As a TV show ends and the credits begin to roll, an algorithm determines the moment when most previous viewers clicked off.
EdgeRank is an algorithm that determines what updates (edges) make it to your news feed and where they land in the results.
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They do this using an algorithm - a step-by-step problem solving procedure.
There is already an algorithm that measures mood, actually, that was created by developers at Google, called the Google-Profile of Mood States (GPOMS).
And it would show that they understand that the perception of an unbiased algorithm is just as important as having an unbiased algorithm.
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