AI’s reality check
Artificial intelligence continues to offer an array of opportunities to support diagnosis—most recently in COVID-19 detection. But there’s still a ways to go before AI lives up to its potential. Bias that perpetuates racial inequity continues to plague algorithms used by healthcare organizations, plus an AI model developed by Google to predict breast cancer has come under scrutiny by scientists claiming the study to validate the model was flawed.
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