Algorithms · April 2022Gaffe level: Blunder
Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped.
Hundreds of machine-learning tools were built to detect covid in hospitals. When tested on real patients, basically none of them worked. The models aced the lab and flunked the ward.
Source: MIT Technology Review
A Thought-Controlled Bionic Arm Moved Into Its First Home Trial
Avi Davidson, who lost his left arm 17 years ago, is the first person to take the University of Utah's thought-controlled LUKE Arm home for a full year. The direct nerve interface lets him move the arm with his thoughts and feel pressure and texture through it, so within days he was making a sandwich and holding his wife's hand.
Source: University of Utah