Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots?
“She had very long locs that would go all the way down to her waist,” Avery Smith describes, his fingers making imaginary strokes from his head across the shoulders as he attempts to paint a vivid portrait of LaToya, his late wife. The Baltimore-based software engineer and LaToya, a podiatrist,...
Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots? --> Can We Build Less Biased Medical Bots? A Black skin health company is giving dermatologists and patients the medical information they need. Their next step? Training the bias out of medical AI. By: Tolu Olasoji April 11, 2022 6 min read Health Illustration by Hillary D. Wilson for Melalogic “She had very long locs that would go all the way down to her waist,” Avery Smith describes, his fingers making imaginary strokes from his head across the shoulders as he attempts to paint a vivid portrait of LaToya, his late wife. The Baltimore-based software engi
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