Exam Results 2020 – Why algorithms get things so wrong?
A-level results: why algorithms get things so wrong – and what we can do to fix them The scale of public anger over the automated downgrading of thousands of students’ A-level results highlights how much social and political power algorithmic decision-making now has. As well as students’ grades,...
Medical AI can now predict survival rates – but it’s not ready to unleash on patients
Researchers recently produced an algorithm that could guess whether heart patients had lived or died from their condition within a year. By looking at data from a test of the heart’s electrical activity known as an electrocardiogram or ECG, the algorithm successfully predicted patient survival in 85% of...
A Researcher has created an algorithm to remove the water from underwater photos
A new algorithm can now counteract the distorting impact of water on photography. The pictures you have seen underwater probably look blandly blue-green? The reason why this is has to do with how light travels through water. Derya Akkaynak, an oceangoing engineer, wants to change this. She...