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So what exactly is an algorithm?

Peter Day reports from New York City to investigate 'thinking machines', and how they learn. Can computers learn and adjust their programmes to work like a human brain? And just what is an algorithm?

First broadcast as part of In Business: Thinking Machines, Radio 4, 7 May 2015.

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