These logical comparisons are key to the basic functions an algorithm contains. This flowchart may seem simple enough, but when programmers start to assemble larger pieces of code for complex ...

(For more background, check out our first flowchart on "What is AI?" here.) Machine-learning algorithms use statistics ... many layers of simple computational nodes that work together to munch ...

To clear things up, I drew you this flowchart on the back of an envelope so you can work out whether something is using AI or not. This originally appeared in our AI newsletter The Algorithm.