Coronavirus is Breaking AI; Models Discombobulated - AI Trends

Covid-19 is the "kryptonite" of AI, breaking its brittle models with outlier data that becomes the new normal, suggests a scientist writing in the Nature Public Health Emergency Collection effort of the National Library of Medicine, NIH. The pre-publication paper is an evaluation of how AI has performed against Covid-19, the main areas where AI has contributed to the right and areas where AI has had little impact. "Its use is hampered by a lack of data, and by too much data. Overcoming these constraints will require a careful balance between data privacy and public health and rigorous human-AI interaction," states the paper, written by Wim Naude, a visiting professor at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. "It is unlikely that these will be addressed in time to be of much help during the present pandemic. In the meantime, extensive gathering of diagnostic data on who is infectious will be essential to save lives, train AI, and limit economic damages," he states.