AI and COVID: A quick example of garbage in, garbage out

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Sometimes, I post whole class lessons. Sometimes, I post short little example nuggets. Today I share the latter.  This one is a brief, easy-to-understand example of why AI only learns what we teach it and how even a smarty pants computer can get a little confused about correlations and what they mean. A great way to introduce ML, AI, problems with both, and even discuss correlation and predictions and regression.

This tweet from @hoalycu demonstrates how AI only knows what you tell it, and nothing more.
https://twitter.com/hoalycu/status/1507770891786096643...in my head, I imagine that AI was just judging comic-sans font.


The text in this tweet was from a MIT Technology Review article by WIll Douglas Heaven: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/07/30/1030329/machine-learning-ai-failed-covid-hospital-diagnosis-pandemic/

If you want to go deeper with this example, I strongly recommend reading Dr. Cat Hicks's thread about this post: https://twitter.com/grimalkina/status/1508095358693302275.


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