Consider the List ADT (also known as the Sequence ADT ... This delay might slow your understanding of an algorithm. Flowcharts belong to the structured programming era and aren’t as useful ...

(For more background, check out our first flowchart on "What is AI?" here.) Machine-learning algorithms use statistics ... like Siri and Alexa. The list goes on. In all of these instances, each ...

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.

Yup. As UCLA’s John Villasenor has pointed out, this means that even something as innocuous as a recipe or a list of directions to a friend’s house can be understood as an algorithm.