Medical Device Network November 13, 2019
Recent years have turned the phrase ‘artificial intelligence’ into something of a buzzword, but it’s hard to deny the impact machine learning is currently having on healthcare. The ethical implications of AI’s rise are massive, and not everyone is sure the industry is ready.
We think of AI as an arbiter of neutrality, but when fed biased data it churns out biased results.
At the beginning of 2017, Amazon’s machine learning division shuttered an artificial intelligence (AI) project it had been working on for the past three years. A team in its machine learning wing had been building computer programmes designed to review job applicants’ resumes, giving them star-ratings...