For the subset of users who understand the impact of the algorithms enough to try to appease them, the answer, then, is yes—that makes one boring; but the “that” is not the users’ predictability but ...

Researchers have recently published a paper on gender balance in music recommendation systems in which they ask themselves how the system should work to avoid gender bias.

Greg Linden reports that Google has switched the algorithm they use for YouTube’s recommendation engine from their own to a variation of Amazon’s algorithm that was designed in the late 90s ...