For AI to flourish in healthcare, the industry must focus on the “algorithmically underserved,” said John D. Halamka, M.D., M.S., president of Mayo Clinic Platform, at the HLTH 2022 conference this month in Las Vegas. Giving visibility to the algorithmically underserved —…
Artificial intelligence (AI) may still feel a bit futuristic to many, but the average consumer would be surprised at where AI can be found. It’s no longer a science fiction concept confined to Hollywood and feature movies or top-secret technology only found in computer…
Last weekend may have been a holiday in Silicon Valley, with AI researchers wolfing down turkey before preparing to fly to New Orleans for the start of NeurIPS (which one researcher called an “annual gala” of AI and another “Burning Man” for AI). But…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have been involved in numerous scandals in recent years. For instance, take the COMPAS recidivism algorithm. The algorithm evaluated the likelihood that defendants will commit another crime in the future. It was widely used in the US criminal…
Terms such as artificial intelligence, big data and machine learning bring to mind computers processing loads of data into uses for the real world. But the authors of a recent essay published in the magazine Noema say the truth is much uglier, and often…
Artificial intelligence is the future, but it already has a prominent standing in the present. As data science gets more sophisticated and consumers continue to demand a more personalized customer experience, AI is the tool that will help enterprises better understand their…
Lapses such as racially biased facial recognition or apparently sexist credit card approval algorithms have thankfully left companies asking how to build AI ethically. Many companies have released “ethical AI” guidelines, such as Microsoft’s Responsible AI principles, which requires that AI systems be fair, inclusive, reliable and…
Not long after Elon Musk announced plans to acquire Twitter last March, he mused about open sourcing “the algorithm” that determines how tweets are surfaced in user feeds so that it could be inspected for bias. His fans—as well as those who believe the social media platform harbors…
s the field of AI has grown, researchers have proudly measured and reported AI systems’ increasingly impressive technical capabilities. But researchers have been much slower to measure AI’s harms, let alone publish papers about them. “As these systems are being increasingly deployed…
Are you self-aware? I’d bet that you believe you are. The thing is, supposedly, few of us are especially self-aware. There is a range or degree of self-awareness and we all purportedly vary in how astutely self-aware we are. You might think…
