Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science | WIRED

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AI hype has researchers in fields from medicine to political science rushing to use techniques that they don’t always understand—causing a wave of spurious results.

Save this story Save this story The AI Database → Application Prediction End User Research Sector Health care Public safety Research Technology Machine learning History shows civil wars to be among the messiest, most horrifying of human affairs. So Princeton professor Arvind Narayanan and his PhD student Sayash Kapoor got suspicious last year when they discovered a strand of political science research claiming to predict when a civil war will break out with more than 90 percent accuracy, thanks to artificial intelligence . A series of papers described astonishing results from using machine lea

Sloppy Use of Machine Learning Is Causing a ‘Reproducibility Crisis’ in Science | WIRED

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