MIT's AI predicts catastrophe if social distancing restrictions relax too soon

MIT recently trained a machine learning model to accurately predict the spread of COVID-19. According to the AI, we should be seeing a plateau where the amount of new cases begins to level off in the US and Italy in the next week. This good news, however, comes with a dire warning: relaxing quarantine measures too soon will be catastrophic. The engineers behind the AI explain the results as being very similar to the situation that happened in Singapore where quarantine and social distancing efforts managed to almost completely flatten the curve before an ill-advised return to business as usual caused a massive resurgence in COVID-19 cases. The MIT team trained the AI to extrapolate publicly-available data for insights into the disease's spread, taking into account how different governments handled social distancing and quarantine orders as well as other standard epidemiology parameters.