This is arguably my favorite nonsense of the week Media: AI is "Perhaps Too Good" at predicting death Actual Study: Machine learning has a 3.2% improvement over reasonably good statistical modelpic.twitter.com/wlH4sYMdoz
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This is arguably my favorite nonsense of the week Media: AI is "Perhaps Too Good" at predicting death Actual Study: Machine learning has a 3.2% improvement over reasonably good statistical modelpic.twitter.com/wlH4sYMdoz
Study is here, and it's pretty cool: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214365 …
Basically, the researchers made a decent statistical model and then tested the predictive power against two types of machine learning The "AI" did ~slightly~ better Cue the hilarious headlinespic.twitter.com/095CkmCGKM
Now look - I'm not an expert in machine learning, I don't claim to understand exactly what's happening here But a minor improvement is definitely not earth-shattering newspic.twitter.com/kAF2cPMU0n
The study is great, and hopefully these techniques can be incorporated into public health planning, but the headlines are just ridiculous
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