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In the AI science boom, beware: your results are only as good as your data

Machine-learning systems are voracious data consumers — but trustworthy results require more vetting both before and after publication.
  1. Hunter Moseley

    1. Hunter Moseley is a professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.

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We are in the middle of a data-driven science boom. Huge, complex data sets, often with large numbers of individually measured and annotated ‘features’, are fodder for voracious artificial intelligence (AI) and machine-learning systems, with details of new applications being published almost daily.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00306-2

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