Apr 24, 2020
In COVID-related AI research, Andy and Dave discuss the joint announcement from Apple and Google on creating a voluntary COVID-19 tracing system that makes use of Bluetooth and anonymous crypto keys. A report in the BMJ screened 27 recent studies describing 31 COVID prediction models and found that all of the studies...
Apr 17, 2020
In COVID-related AI topics, Andy and Dave discuss an emerging crop (no less than three!) of COVID-19 cough detectors that attempt to diagnose the presence of COVID by various voice measurements. In a similar vein, but for different purposes, the U.S. drone maker Draganfly announces it is working with the Australian...
Apr 10, 2020
Jvion has provided an online mapping tool to view regions of the United States and see the areas most vulnerable to issues related to COVID, a “COVID Vulnerability Map.” A video clip from Tectonix uses anonymized crowdsourced data to show how Spring Breakers at one Fort Lauderdale beach spread back across the United...
Apr 3, 2020
In COVID-related news, Andy and Dave discuss CloseLoop.ai and its release of an open-source toolkit for predicting people vulnerable to COVID-19. A Korean biotech company, Seegene, announces that it has used AI to create a coronavirus test. DarwinAI and research at the University of Waterloo announce COVID-Net, a...