Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. | MIT Technology Review
This is an absolute litany of shitty ML practices, including a dataset which “mixed X-rays of supine and erect patients, without noting that only the sickest patients were X-rayed while lying down. The model learned to predict that people were sick if they were on their backs” (via Cory Doctorow)
(tags: via:doctorow covid-19 ai ml fail data health medicine statistcs)