WF-99N8EL
AI Tools Failed to Sufficiently Predict COVID Patients, Some Potentially Harmful
AI tools failed to sufficiently predict COVID patients, some potentially harmful.
- Date it happened
- 2021-07-30
- Organisation involved
- Unknown
- Product, system or model
- Hundreds of AI tools were developed during the pandemic to help diagnose and triage patients faster. However, many were ineffective. These problems stemmed from bad data - datasets were spliced togeth
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