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 ... Frankly, this process is quite basic: find the pattern, apply the pattern.

Answer by Carlos Guestrin, Amazon Professor of Machine Learning in Computer Science & CEO of Dato, Inc., on Quora: Like with movies, I don’t have one favorite machine learning (ML) algorithm ...

The question may seem basic ... 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.