The 757 training classes are defined using a novel taxonomy of skin disease and a partitioning algorithm that maps diseases into training classes (for example, acrolentiginous melanoma, amelanotic ...

For example, algorithms used in facial recognition technology have in the past shown higher identification rates for men than for women, and for individuals of non-white origin than for whites.

Examples abound of AI systems behaving badly. Last year, Amazon was forced to ditch a hiring algorithm that was found to be gender biased; Google was left red-faced after the autocomplete ...

A study published Thursday in Science has found that a health care risk-prediction algorithm, a major example of tools used on more than 200 million people in the U.S., demonstrated racial bias ...

08-06-2024 THE FUTURE OF WORK Algorithms control workers. Here is one example how In his new book, AI expert Hatim Rahman argues that algorithms have created a new labor market paradigm for workers.

Another example of clustering algorithms in use is recommender systems, which group together users with similar viewing, browsing, or shopping patterns to recommend similar content.

Topline Amazon, the behemoth online retailer, used a secret algorithm called “Project Nessie” to determine how much to raise prices in a manner in which competitors would follow, according to ...

Abiodun Ogunyemi has been an Uber Eats delivery driver since February 2020. But since March he has been unable to work due to what a union supporting drivers claims is a racially-biased algorithm ...

The algorithm located bestsellers across seven plot types, for example. And a book was no less likely to best-sell if it ended on a downer (all the better for a sequel, The Bestseller Code notes).