In the four months since the novel coronavirus was first identified, a myriad of AI tools has popped up promising to fight the disease. The tech has predicted how the virus will spread, calculated ventilator demand, and searched for symptoms by analyzing X-rays, audio of coughs, body temperatures — and even feces. But most of its applications have been more hype than substance. As Neil Lawrence, the former director of machine learning at Amazon Cambridge, told CNBC: This [pandemic] is showing what bulls–t most AI hype is. It’s great and it will be useful one day but it’s not surprising in a pandemic that we fall…
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