The News Of Tomorrow, Today
The News Of Tomorrow, Today
Algorithm
Cam Wilson
Tech platforms use algorithms to make decisions. They’re used to decide what content to show you, whose accounts to recommend, even how to preview images on the timeline. In making these decisions, they can — often unintentionally — reflect the bias of the people who write them. And that’s the…
Algorithms rule our digital lives. They determine what we see and when we see it and in the case of some dating and ride-share apps, they determine how much we pay. Without seeing how an algorithm works, however, that latter aspect can be rife for discriminatory pricing. And there’s no…
Algorithms have screwed up in horrifying, hilarious, and unfortunate ways, so it’s nice when one with the potential to save lives nearly nails it. On Monday, Google AI researchers along with healthcare researchers published research showing that they’ve successfully trained a deep learning algorithm to detect lung cancer with a 94.4…
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