An algorithm, drawn by a 28-year-old female PhD student in communication in Switzerland.

Whether you could draw me how an algorithm works. You can explain to me in parallel what you're drawing. Yeah, decision trees in particular, I think. Anything. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Oh, it's probably binary, not... whatever! So, I imagine it. Decision trees, when you... It starts at a point and the algorithm has to figure out if it goes right or left and if it goes that way then it goes on and so on. I'm just going to finish drawing this. [laughs] Go ahead. Yeah. Like this, but just a million times. Where does your knowledge of algorithms come from? From discussions with people here at the institute or from documentaries about algorithms. But that's not really an in-depth knowledge either. Okay, and in everyday life? Do you encounter algorithms there? Is that a topic of yours somewhere? Yeah, every time I talk about Instagram. Yeah? Why is that? Because we ask ourselves: If you always get the ads or you feel like you just talked about something and then you get the ads right away. Is that now: They're listening to us or the algorithms have gotten so good at advertising that the moment you say it. So probably you're in that situation and they see your data, where you move and how and then they bring you the right advertisement. And that's where the word algorithm kind of lights up for you. Yeah, right. Exactly. And did you, did you ever take a closer look at how that works? Pfff, not really. Why not? No time. Not that I don't find it important or exciting. I think I'm aware that my movements are somehow archived online, and that forecasts are made. Accordingly, you just have to be careful when you move around in it.