What is an Algorithm?

While artificial intelligence lacks empathy, reason, and even basic common sense, we already rely on it to make major decisions that affect human lives. Who gets hired? Who gets fired? Who goes to college? Who goes to jail? Whose life is saved by an organ transplant? Whose life is ended in a military strike? Machine algorithms guide us in all these decisions and, as our group of leading researchers will demonstrate, they often do a better job than we do. Good or bad, this train has left the station, so jump aboard for an eye-opening look at the brave new world of today… and tomorrow.

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[villebooks]

The conclusion at the end, 'it's like magic', is pretty unsatisfying for a science channel.

[erickbarney]

A series of steps to solve a problem. A fine set of instructions performed in a sequence to achieve an end result.

[SoCalFreelance]

I would expect every High School graduate to understand what an algorithm is from math class.

[Michaelangelo]

Mendeleev’s table is a cyclic algorithm with periodicity, where particles are rules of algorithm. Feinman diagrams are graphic representation of algorithm. Amplituhedron is graphic algorithm. Music is algorithm of brain’s processing. DNA is algorithm (program), it is fragmental. Every alive creature is puzzle of fragments of ancient, present, and next animals. Evolution contradicts to the second law of thermodynamics (entropy), it means we are inside a process of restoration of system. Sequence of time makes sense only inside process, but processing is simultaneous, parallel.

[czerskip]

An algorithm is NOT a recipe for a computer. It's just a recipe. A culinary recipe is an algorithm. The boy got it right, the "scientist" seems to be very limited in his views.
This is probably the most misleading video from WSF.

[merlepatterson]

Will ML ever be able to self-program a computer to abstractly reflect upon itself in order to make fine self assessment adjustments in a manner which humans can easily do (for the most part)?

[jbwilk]

It's a variable math problem that decides what humans are

[rustyspottedcat]

algs = inteligence (evolution), cpu = laws of physics (logical & math operations), memory = space, clock speed = time (speed of light) == virtual reality

[Parpl]

Al Gore Rhythm is an ex US Vice President who tries to dance.

[tbz]

I really hope there were more people 'on the street' who had a better sense of what an algorithm is and this was edited to only show those who didn't. If not, I am starting to understand how Trump got elected. Try books America!

[alemtsegay]

Absolutely sham definition of algorithms.I think it may gives highly likely satisfactory definition if it is simply put in as process or mechanism to get a meaningful solution of a projects or a riddle.

[u-tubeeditor]

[South America, Australia]...(new) data gathering centers?!*