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NeurIPS dips into health
At this year’s Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, researchers shared advances and challenges in machine learning applications in medicine and public health. In a presentation on AI and social justice, Microsoft Research senior principal researcher Mary Gray used the oft-cited example of Optum’s racially-biased algorithm as a call to action to develop datasets and algorithms to reduce disparities in outcomes, medical and otherwise. That mindset will be critical as academics experiment with new applications of machine learning, like a model presented by MIT researchers that can flag treatments for sepsis patients that are likely to lead to a “medical dead-end,” the point after which a patient will die no matter what care is provided.
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