1. Artificial intelligence can help address coronavirus - if applied in a creative way.
2. It is up to us to identify new and innovative ways to leverage what AI can do.
3. Examples include identifying patterns in coronavirus-related research and helping with diagnostics.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to help us tackle the pressing issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. It is not the technology itself, though, that will make the difference but rather the knowledge and creativity of the humans who use it.
Indeed, the COVID-19 crisis will likely expose some of the key shortfalls of AI. Machine learning, the current form of AI, works by identifying patterns in historical training data. When used wisely, AI has the potential to exceed humans not only through speed but also by detecting patterns in that training data that humans have overlooked.
However, AI systems need a lot of data, with relevant examples in that data, in order to find these patterns. Machine learning also implicitly assumes that conditions today are the same as the conditions represented in the training data. In other words, AI systems implicitly assume that what has worked in the past will still work in the future.
Source:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/03/covid-19-crisis-artificial-intelligence-creativity/
