“How tall is President Obama?” Through algorithm updates like “ Hummingbird,” Google has evolved to recognize such questions and, increasingly, to answer them itself.

Wolfram Alpha is a system for computing the answers to questions. To accomplish this it uses built-in models of fields of knowledge, complete with data and algorithms, that represent real-world ...

OK, not exactly a computer — more like, the wild array of technologies that inform what we consume on our computers and phones. Because on this episode, we're looking at how AI and race bias ...

Humans can't compete with computer algorithms for short-term trades, but still have an edge over the medium to long term.

How to respond to climate change, if you are an algorithm We ran our youth essay question through an artificial-intelligence system to produce an essay ...