Algorithms · August 2021Gaffe level: Typo
Twitter's Photo-Cropping Algorithm Favors Young, Thin Females
Twitter's photo-cropping algorithm consistently favored young, thin, light-skinned faces when choosing thumbnails. The company ditched the algorithm after users demonstrated its biases on command.
Source: Wired
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