AI may not be the miracle solution to detecting diseases. While it could be incredibly accurate (90+ percent) during development, its performance degrades in real world applications. One such unfortunate outcome occured in relation to malignant moles: AI models were found to have learnt that the absence of rulers meant a mole was likely benign, as the images of malignant moles from the scientifc databases, given during development, often included rulers. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
