An algorithm that predicts bestselling books has awarded a perfect score to The Circle by Dave Eggers, a book that just so happens to be a dystopian satire of life in Silicon Valley. Hmm. Said ...

Researchers' algorithm finds six "core trajectories" that tend to comprise most works of fiction.

Heligo Books has acquired Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture by Kyle Chayka, a staff writer at the New Yorker, with publication scheduled for January 2024.

But as Pedro Domingos points out in The Master Algorithm, machines that learn have been deeply involved with our lives for a while. If you use Google, Netflix, Amazon, Pandora, Yelp, Xbox or just ...