COVID: Artificial intelligence in the pandemic

If artificial intelligence is the future, then the future is now. This pandemic has shown us just how fast artificial intelligence, or AI, works and what it can do in so many different ways. Right from the start, AI has helped us learn about SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 infections. It's helped scientists analyse the virus' genetic information -- its DNA -- at speed. DNA is the stuff that makes the virus, indeed any living thing, what it is.