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6. Beating Bias In AI, Anti-Tremor Gloves, AR Assisted Surgery

The Next Byte Podcast · 23 Feb 2021 · 17m

What this episode covers

Hosts Daniel and Forbode discuss three engineering stories: a multi-university collaboration led by Professors Ming Yan Liu, Young Liu, Patty Naz Nazrizade, and Ming Yin to detect and mitigate bias in AI hiring models; Five Microns' anti-tremor gloves using tuned mass damper technology to reduce essential tremors by ~85%; and ETH Zurich's use of Microsoft HoloLens 2 for AR-assisted spinal surgery at Balgrist University Hospital.

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early-stage companies and large enterprises

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Five Microns
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Microsoft HoloLens 2
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University of Michigan, UC Santa Cruz, Ohio State University, Purdue University, ETH Zurich, Balgrist University Hospital

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