Mathematicians may have a better way to measure agreement across different datasets. Agreement affects reproducibility, meta-analysis, and prediction to fill in missing data points. We need a more ...

For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Innovation futurist, keynote speaker and author, based in California. The need to predict is omnipresent. Every time you buy a ...

Three books unpack our infatuation with prediction, and what we lose when we outsource this task to machines. To be human is, fundamentally, to be a forecaster. Occasionally a pretty good one. Trying ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

All investors can benefit from a better understanding of today's prediction markets, where betting on politics, financial ...

• A new AI machine learning algorithm capable of predicting planetary orbits that may one day help accelerate physics research in other areas such as renewable energy. • Strikingly, the algorithms ...