Go to any health-care facility, and one of many first issues they’ll do is clip a pulse oximeter to your finger. These units, which observe coronary heart charge and blood oxygen, provide very important details about an individual’s well being.
However they’re additionally flawed. For folks with darkish pores and skin, pulse oximeters can overestimate simply how a lot oxygen their blood is carrying. That implies that an individual with dangerously low oxygen ranges might sound, based on the heartbeat oximeter, high-quality.
The US Meals and Drug Administration continues to be making an attempt to determine what to do about this downside. Final week, an FDA advisory committee met to mull over higher methods to guage the efficiency of those units in folks with a wide range of pores and skin tones. However engineers have been occupied with this downside too. Cassandra Willyard has dug into why they’re biased and what technological fixes could be potential. Check out what she came upon.
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1 OpenAI is planning to show the chip business on its head
By sinking trillions of {dollars} into an bold new mission. (WSJ $)
+ AMD additionally has plans to interrupt Nvidia’s chip chokehold. (Economist $)
+ OpenAI’s COO is molding the startup right into a industrial powerhouse. (Bloomberg $)
+ The corporate has hurtled previous the $2 billion income mark. (FT $)
+ Why China is betting huge on chiplets. (MIT Know-how Overview)
2 US regulators have outlawed AI-generated robocalls
In a bid to get forward of audio deepfakes disrupting the Presidential election. (AP Information)
+ That doesn’t imply the calls received’t preserve coming, although. (TechCrunch)
+ Iranian hackers infiltrated UAE streaming providers with a deepfake newsreader. (The Guardian)
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