Google's DeepMind just shared AI-generated predictions about the coronavirus that could help researchers stem the global outbreak

DeepMind, Google's AI unit, is joining the global effort learn more about COVID-19, as the disease's toll spreads rapidly throughout much of the world. The UK-based team just used DeepMind's new deep learning system to share its predictions about the protein structures of the coronavirus, which causes the disease. The system uses a machine-learning technique known as "free modelling" to help it predict protein structures when no similar structures of protein are available. Scientists around the world are racing to learn more about the new coronavirus that has swept through China and spread across 86 other countries, at last count. At least 288 people have died outside of mainland China, as of Thursday.