Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Behavioral economics has struggled to simultaneously accommodate two facts: (i) people make mistakes, even on very consequential decisions; and (ii) different people have different preferences. Doing ...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday it can no longer stand behind a widely circulated paper on artificial intelligence written by a doctoral student in its economics program. The ...

1 Department of Psychiatry, The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China 2 Mental Health Center, University-Town Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, ...

Abstract: Accurate recognition of targets is of great importance for many application areas, for example, in self-driving cars, accurate recognition of other vehicles, pedestrians and obstacles is a ...

Now in jeopardy, the U.S. Agency for International Development has been a major research funder for several universities. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) As the Trump administration slashes the ...