brAInfood: 2 popular services that use machine learning algorithms

Date of publication: January 2021 / update: May 2024

This brAInfood starts with a short explanation of some key concepts that are often used when talking about algorithms. After outlining these concepts, we take a closer look at some machine learning algorithms used by two popular services: Netflix and navigation applications. With these two concrete examples, we hope to give you more insight into what machine learning algorithms are and especially what they can do.

With brAInfood, the Knowledge Centre Data & Society wants to provide easily accessible information about artificial intelligence. brAInfood is available under a CC BY 4.0 license, which means that you can reuse and remix this material, provided that you credit us as the source.

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