White House Call-out to Artificial Intelligence Companies

President Asks AI Companies to Comb through Research on Covid-19

Artificial Intelligence battling COVID-19 (finding uses in both environmental & health protection)

—“Pattern recognition across voluminous and sometimes unrelated datasets, whether its environmental datasets or health datasets, is one of machine-learning’s greatest attributes.”—Jed Anderson, Creator, Ceres AI

The White House has issued “a call to action to the Nation’s artificial intelligence experts to develop new text and data mining techniques that can help the science community answer high-priority scientific questions related to COVID-19.” (see request)

Stanford University bringing together AI experts for virtual conference April 1 …

How can AI help battle Covid-19 according to Stanford?

---“AI is extremely good at finding patterns across multiple data types. For example, we’re now able to analyze patterns of human response to the pressures of the pandemic as measured through sentiments on social media, and even patterns in geospatial data to see where social distancing may and may not be working. And, of course, we are using AI to look for patterns in the genome of the virus and its biology to see where we can attack it.

This interdisciplinary conference will show how the availability of molecular, cellular and genomic data, patient and hospital data, population data – all of that can be harnessed for insight. We’ve always examined these data sources through more traditional methods. But now for the first time, and at a critical time of global crisis, we have the ability to use AI to look deeper into data and see patterns that were otherwise not visible previously, including the social and cultural impact of this pandemic. This is what will enable us to work together as a scholarly, scientific community to help the future of humankind.” —Stanford University

Taiwan Setting Example According to ABC News and Stanford Study … using Artificial Intelligence to Help Fight Covid-19

Article excerpt:

“Taiwan, one of the countries that got it right according to a recent article by Stanford Health Policy, used AI, big data and analytics to track and manage the disease in combination with proactive testing.

“Taiwan’s government learned from its 2003 SARS experience and established a public health response mechanism for enabling rapid actions for the next crisis.” ABC news reported, “Audrey Tang, Taiwan’s digital minister and the youngest minister without portfolio to hold office, utilized artificial intelligence to harness data and created real-time digital updates to alert citizens of risky areas to avoid and a live map of local supplies of face masks.” … The US is now following a similar path, with tech leaders and government turning to AI for solutions, with initiatives including the COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19).”

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