Honestly, as someone most of whose life is spent writing algorithms, when I hear any non-technical person say the word "algorithm" that's my cue to tune out. "Algorithms" seems to have a meaning that's approximately "super-intelligent runaway AI robots ... oh, and they're also racist".

Meanwhile, neural nets are accomplishing the great, hitherto-unreachable task of [checks notes] grade school math: https://www.tensorflow.org/datasets/catalog/math_dataset