Algorithms · June 2020Gaffe level: Typo
AI Depixelizer Kept Turning Obama Into a White Man
An AI tool that sharpens blurry faces consistently reconstructed Barack Obama as a white man, revealing the bias baked into its training data. Garbage in, whitewashed out.
Source: The Verge
A Belfast Surgical Robot Has Treated 130 Complex Cases Since May
Belfast City Hospital's Da Vinci 5 robotic platform for gynaecology has treated 130 patients needing complex surgery since its launch in May 2026, and the longest inpatient wait in Belfast Trust has fallen from seven years to three. A new 1.95 million pound investment in endometriosis services will expand the specialist centres and local care behind that progress.