Right now, 96 percent of people who screen positive for lung cancer don't actually have a malignant growth. Machine learning can rule out cancer in a third of them, saving time, money and anxiety.

Google is already using machine learning in Gmail, reaching a 99.9 percent success rate and only yielding a false-positive 0.05 percent of the time. Carry this over to link evaluations and you ...

The implemented system reduced fraud liability for issuing banks significantly while decreasing false positive alerts. This ...

If 50 percent of the false negatives (actual "terrorists") are allowed to survive, the NSA's false positive rate of 0.18 percent would still mean thousands of innocents misclassified as ...

What if people could detect cancer and other diseases with the same speed and ease of a pregnancy test or blood glucose meter ...

Turnitin’s AI writing–detection tool has a higher false positive rate than the company originally asserted, according to Annie Chechitelli, the company’s chief product officer. When the product was ...

AI writing detectors like Turnitin and GPTZero suffer from false positives. Here’s the advice of academics, AI scientists and students on how to deal with it.