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How can we help AI fight this virus and the next?
Australia does not want to miss out on the benefits of data-driven healthcare and clinical practice that is booming in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anna Belgiorno-Nettis and Peter WatersArtificial Intelligence’s medical potential has rarely felt more important than now. Across the world data-driven technology is helping us respond to COVID-19.
A software start-up flagged Wuhan’s increased pneumonia cases nine days before the World Health Organisation. Tools in the pipeline include a machine learning app that compares Facebook posts with expert disease descriptions to pinpoint outbreak locations, and software that generates vast numbers of COVID-19 drug prototypes for scientists to evaluate.
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