Algorithms · August 2025Gaffe level: Typo
A news anchor 'interviewed' a dead Parkland teen's AI avatar. Viewers were appalled
Jim Acosta aired an interview with an AI-generated avatar of Joaquin Oliver, a teen killed in the Parkland shooting. Viewers called it unsettling and grotesque.
Source: The Washington Post
An AI Read Heart Disease From Face and Tongue Photos
Researchers in China fused tongue and facial photographs through a dual-branch deep learning model and screened for coronary heart disease without a single blood test, reaching an AUC of 0.9992 on an independent test set. Published in Scientific Reports, it points to a low-cost, non-invasive screening tool that needs only a camera.
Source: Scientific Reports