Health Tech

A new formula may help black patients’ access to kidney care

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For decades, doctors and hospitals saw kidney patients differently based on their race. A standard equation for estimating kidney function applied a correction for Black patients that made their health appear rosier, inhibiting access to transplants and other treatments. On Thursday, a task force assembled by two leading kidney care societies […]

Tech

Now that machines can learn, can they unlearn?

Enlarge (credit: Andriy Onufriyenko | Getty Images) Companies of all kinds use machine learning to analyze people’s desires, dislikes, or faces. Some researchers are now asking a different question: How can we make machines forget? A nascent area of computer science dubbed machine unlearning seeks ways to induce selective amnesia in artificial intelligence software. The […]

Tech

Google reportedly promises change to research team after high-profile firings

Enlarge / Google, by night. (credit: 400tmax | Getty Images) Google is reportedly promising it will change its research review procedures this year in its AI division, in an apparent bid to restore employee confidence in the wake of two high-profile firings of prominent women from the division. Reuters obtained a recording from an internal […]

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Google settles federal gender and race discrimination charges for $3.8M

Enlarge (credit: Sean Gallup | Getty Images) Google has agreed to a $3.8 million settlement with federal regulators to settle allegations that it both underpaid women software engineers and unfairly passed over women and Asian candidates for software engineering roles. The settlement breaks down into three pools, the US Department of Labor announced Monday. As […]

Business

A.I. Should Have real–along with Also Other takeways from this Season’s NeurIPS

Here is the internet edition of Eye on A.I.,” Fortune’s weekly newsletter covering artificial intelligence along with enterprise. To receive it delivered {} your in-box, then sign here. Hello and welcome to this Previous “Eye on A.I.” of 2020! It is almost always a fantastic place for taking the heartbeat of this area. Held entirely virtually […]