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Read More »Studies find bias in AI models that recommend and diagnose diseases
Research into AI- and machine learning model-driven methods for health care suggests that they hold promise in the areas of phenotype classification, mortality and length-of-stay prediction, and intervention recommendation. But models have traditionally been treated as black boxes in the sense that the rationale behind their suggestions isn’t explained or …
Read More »AI displays bias and inflexibility in civility detection, study finds
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Read More »Cashierless tech could detect shoplifting, but bias concerns abound
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Read More »Columbia researchers find white men are the worst at reducing AI bias
When it comes to customer expectations, the pandemic has changed everything Learn how to accelerate customer service, optimize costs, and improve self-service in a digital-first world. Register here Bias in AI is pervasive. From dermatological models that discriminate against patients with dark skin to exam-scoring algorithms that disadvantage public school …
Read More »You can’t eliminate bias from machine learning, but you can pick your bias
Best practices for a successful AI Center of Excellence A guide for both CoEs and business units Download Guide Bias is a major topic of concern in mainstream society, which has embraced the concept that certain characteristics — race, gender, age, or zip code, for example — should not matter …
Read More »Researchers create dataset to advance U.S. Supreme Court gender bias analysis
Automation and Jobs Read our latest special issue. Open Now University of Washington language researchers and legal professionals recently created a labeled dataset for detection of interruptions and competitive turn-taking in U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments. They then used the corpus of “turn changes” to train AI models to experiment …
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 »Researchers claim bias in AI named entity recognition models
Transform 2020 Watch every session from our flagship AI event On Demand Watch Now Twitter researchers claim to have found evidence of demographic bias in named entity recognition, the first step toward generating automated knowledge bases, or the repositories leveraged by services like search engines. They say their analysis reveals …
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