Algorithms · June 2019Gaffe level: Feral
YouTube's Algorithm Fed Kids' Videos to Pedophiles
The recommendation engine steered viewers from suggestive content to home videos of children, building an audience no one wanted. The algorithm did not know what it was doing, which was the problem.
Source: Engadget
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