It's a commonplace of artificial intelligence to say that machine learning, which depends on vast amounts of data, functions by finding patterns in data. The phrase, "finding patterns in data," in ...

When I was a kid, I loved doing connect-the-dots drawings. I enjoyed discovering a pattern. Those who suggest conspiracy theories know the brain's natural ability to find patterns. They know that just ...

Once a machine-vision system has acquired an image, a software image-analysis algorithm, known as a pattern-finding tool (PFT), must determine whether the image contains a particular pattern. While ...