Unreliable algorithms could be deciding who gets a covid vaccine first
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/23/covid-vaccine-algorithm-failure
When front-line workers at Stanford Health Care were passed over for the first wave of coronavirus vaccines, officials at the hospital in Palo Alto, Calif., blamed the “very complex algorithm” it had built to decide employees’ place in line. But unlike the sophisticated machine-learning algorithms that underpin the modern Internet, Stanford’s system was actually just a basic formula, simple enough for an Excel spreadsheet. And a breakdown of the algorithm, sent to medical residents and first (...)
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