11 Ways Artificial Intelligence Is Fighting Coronavirus(COVID-19)

As COVID-19 reaches more than 60 countries with global cases topping 95,500 and the number of death tolls crossing 3,000, the whole world is doing their best to avoid the catastrophe. While organisations like WHO and UN are releasing funds to facilitate research, many are looking towards AI to decelerate the crisis. The scientific communities across the world have galvanised to find a 21st-century solution to a 21st-century problem. Let's take a look at how AI is being used to contain the latest outbreak: DeepMind today have announced that they are releasing structure predictions of several proteins that can promote research into the ongoing research around COVID-19. They have used the latest version of AlphaFold system to find these structures.