A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist, had created a program called SciFiQ, and ...

Algorithms using computers first rose to prominence in the mid-20th century, when the military began writing formulas for, say, determining where to aim a missile at a moving object.

If you give them a crayon AI boffins are interested that a computer outfit has come up with an algorithm which could mean the end of writers. Code, penned by Narrative Science, can turn sports ...

Google DeepMind today pulled the curtain back on AlphaEvolve, an artificial-intelligence agent that can invent brand-new computer algorithms — then put them straight to work inside the company ...

Even if a computer’s speed could reach the physical limit, computational hurdles remain due to the limits of algorithms.