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this article on COVID AI projects has some gobsmacking anecdotes 🤦♂️ "…data set contained chest scans of children who did not have covid as their examples of what non-covid cases looked like … as a result, the AIs learned to identify kids, not covid" technologyreview.com/2021/07/30/1030329/machine-learning-ai-failed-covid-hospital-diagnosis-pandemic
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"… data set that contained a mix of scans taken when patients were lying down and standing up. Because patients scanned while lying down were more likely to be seriously ill, the AI learned wrongly to predict serious covid risk from a person’s position"
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"… some AIs were found to be picking up on the text font that certain hospitals used to label the scans. As a result, fonts from hospitals with more serious caseloads became predictors of covid risk"