In the extreme, algorithms can suffer from what is called catastrophic forgetting, where the entire algorithm can no longer learn or remember anything. One theory of human age-related cognitive ...

Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the ...

I’ve spent months trying to untrain the algorithms that were relentlessly serving me content on loss. I’ve always been a super-Googler, coping with uncertainty by trying to learn as much as I can ...

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