Yiannis Kiachopoulos and Artur Saudabayev, co-founders of Causaly

Lon­don AI up­start, which counts No­var­tis as a cus­tomer, can teach your com­put­er to read

When Ama­zon de­vel­oped a ma­chine-learn­ing tool to make its re­cruit­ment process more ef­fi­cient — the man-made sys­tem ab­sorbed the gen­der-bias of its hu­man mak­ers, and the project was abort­ed. In the field of bio­phar­ma­ceu­ti­cals, the way re­searchers train their ma­chine learn­ing al­go­rithms can skew the out­come of pre­dic­tions. But be­fore those pre­dic­tions can be made, the en­gine must learn to read to make sense of ex­plo­sive vol­ume of knowl­edge out there.

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