How open banking is driving huge innovation Learn how fintechs and forward-thinking FIs are accelerating personalized financial products through data-rich APIs. Register Now To provide clarity and avert potential harms, algorithms that impact human lives would ideally be reviewed by an independent body before they’re deployed, just as environmental impact …
Read More »Researchers find flaws in algorithm used to identify atypical medication orders
Maintain your employer brand in a pandemic Read the VentureBeat Jobs guide to employer branding Download eBook Can algorithms identify unusual medication orders or profiles more accurately than humans? Not necessarily. A study coauthored by researchers at the Université Laval and CHU Sainte-Justine in Montreal found that one model used …
Read More »Apparent racial bias found in Twitter photo algorithm
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now An algorithm Twitter uses to decide how photos are cropped in people’s timelines appears to be automatically choosing to display the faces of white people over people with darker skin. The bias was discovered by Twitter users in recent days …
Read More »For Quick Coronavirus Testing, Israel Turns to a Clever Algorithm
BEERSHEBA, Israel — A team of three Israeli scientists has pioneered a coronavirus testing procedure that they say is faster and more efficient than any now in use, testing samples in pools of as many as 48 people at once. The Israeli government plans to roll out the new method …
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