As the global economy implodes because of the COVID-19 shutdown, digital technologies are booming as businesses pushed into digital transformation and virtual workspaces turn to artificial intelligence to engage with customers, collaborate with employees and shore up supply chains.

Whether it’s using chatbots to support front-end customer service, computer vision to help maintain social distancing, machine learning for modelling the effects of reopening economies or employing advanced automation for addressing frailties in the supply chain across industries, the pandemic has created the perfect storm for the AI industry to thrive.