Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of payments. We live in a world where machines can understand speech, recognize faces, and even generate ...

Theoretical physicists use machine-learning algorithms to speed up difficult calculations and eliminate untenable theories—but could they transform what it means to make discoveries? Theoretical ...

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...