The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

Social media platforms use complex algorithms to decide what content appears on each user's feed. These systems are designed to filter massive amounts of posts and prioritize the ones most likely to ...