AI and the coronavirus fight: How artificial intelligence is taking on COVID-19 ZDNet

As the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak continues to spread across the globe, companies and researchers are looking to use artificial intelligence as a way of addressing the challenges of the virus. Here are just some of the projects using AI to address the coronavirus outbreak. A number of research projects are using AI to identify drugs that were developed to fight other diseases but which could now be repurposed to take on coronavirus. By studying the molecular setup of existing drugs with AI, companies want to identify which ones might disrupt the way COVID-19 works. BenevolentAI, a London-based drug-discovery company, began turning its attentions towards the coronavirus problem in late January.