Decline of Social Media

Scott Rosenberg predicts the rapid decline of social media amid a shift by corporations to delivering algorithm-curated content.

-DD

Pricing Algorithms

Kristen Senz and Alexander MacKay write about how automated pricing algorithms result in higher prices for the consumer.

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Algorithms Impacting Life

Tim Greene shares news about newly-discovered algorithms that are changing peoples' lives.

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Computer Algorithms Aid Customer Service and Health Care

I just finished reading the audiobook version of Christopher Steiner's Automate This . Steiner explores how algorithms ("bots") have created striking improvements in customer service, and are poised to impact health care. Recommended.

On the same topic, Joab Jackson reports that IBM has launched a customer service smart bot based on its Watson chess player engine.   Lucas Mearian notes that IBM is also working to program Watson so that it can pass the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination.

-DD