DuckDuckGo has announced an add-on to the Chrome browser that blocks Google s new scheme to provide marketers with information for targeting advertising at Internet users.
The scheme called FLoC Federated Learning of Cohorts is being tested in Chrome, in some cases without the knowledge of the browser s users.
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Paris, France and New York, NY June 10, 2021 - AP-HP Greater Paris University Hospitals, the leading European clinical trial center with the largest amount of healthcare data in France dedicated to research and Owkin, a startup pioneering Federated Learning and AI technologies for medical research and clinical development, announced the recent results of their ongoing strategic collaboration at ASCO 2021. The abstract and poster entitled Identification of pancreatic adenocarcinoma molecular subtypes on histology slides using deep learning models demonstrates the first AI-based
tool for predicting genomic subtypes of pancreatic cancer (PDAC) developed from machine learning applied to histology slides. The tool, a trained and validated AI model, is usable in clinical practice worldwide and opens the possibility of patient molecular stratification in routine care and for clinical
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We are concerned, after hearing reports about your company and its products, about harmful bias at Alphabet, the letter said, warning of ethical issues with its use of AI. Issues with Google search algorithms returning non-diverse image sets for basic searches and the more recent dermatology diagnosis algorithm that was not trained on dark skin tones are troubling.
In May 2020, Google announced an app that it said could recognize over 200 skin conditions but drew criticism from dermatologists who accused it of a cavalier attitude by not issuing a bias and accuracy study. The search giant, which later published an accuracy study in Nature magazine, focused on ethnicity rather than skin color in its training dataset, according to reports. Subjects with brown skin were underrepresented in the dataset, while dark brown skin was absent.
Kim Komando
Special to USA TODAY
Big Tech companies are woven into the fabric of our everyday lives. We message each other on our Apple and Android smartphones, share photos on Facebook, shop on Amazon, work on our Microsoft and Apple computers, and Google things all day long.
If you’re super privacy-conscious, maybe you’re ready to nuke your private info floating around the web – or as much as you can, at least. Tap or click to erase yourself from the internet.
Let’s look at a company I bet you interact with most days, Google. Here are three settings you need to check: