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Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?

2023-12-07 23:15:35.818653+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Nature: Is AI leading to a reproducibility crisis in science?

Shamir and Dhar found several other cases in which a reportedly successful image classification by AI — from cell types to face recognition — returned similar results from blank or meaningless parts of the images. The algorithms performed better than chance at recognizing faces without faces, and cells without cells. Some of these papers have been cited hundreds of times

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