Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The life sciences industry is right to be optimistic about the potential of generative AI. Biotech startups are already testing AI-generated drugs in clinical trials with human patients. Researchers have estimated that AI-powered drug discovery could drive as much as $50 billion in economic value over the next decade.

Although the potential for artificial intelligence to transform healthcare in lower income countries has been much hyped, the technology is proving genuinely useful in helping Africa overcome difficulties in tackling diseases. Such technology can automate medical tasks and help doctors to do more with limited resources. It can even accelerate advances if certain barriers are overcome. The work of minoHealth AI Labs, the Ghana-based data science start-up that I founded, offers one example. By collecting medical images, we are seeking to automate radiology through the use of deep learning.

Baricitinib is a drug typically prescribed to patients with aches and pains from rheumatoid arthritis. But it might also offer relief from something more. In recent weeks, researchers at London-based BenevolentAI have been exploring the use of existing drugs as treatments for Covid-19, the new strain of coronavirus that has had drastic repercussions on global markets and left thousands dead in its wake. Specifically, the British start-up has looked to artificial intelligence to crunch vast amounts of public data to find a drug that could be used to treat patients while a new vaccine is conjured. "Given the scale and rapid spread of the 2019 novel coronavirus… there is an immediate need for medicines that can help before a vaccine can be produced," BenevolentAI wrote in a paper in the Lancet, a medical journal.

South Korean Go master Lee Se-Dol recently announced his retirement from professional Go competition. He felt that no matter how hard he tries, he will never beat AI Go players like AlphaGo. It is a rather sad decision and development of his historical defeat in competition with Google DeepMind's AlphaGo. It gives the whole thing a more dramatic tone than it should be. However, the defeat of human Go players to AI is neither the end of the world for the Go game nor for the human players.

If your child isn't a straight-A student today, don't worry, take the long view. In the future, artificial intelligence (AI) will automate many jobs and disrupt industries, outperforming people in many areas. In generations prior, college degrees and post-graduate degrees were a path toward having careers with higher than average income-earning potential. Automation due to AI will impact both white collar and blue collar jobs alike. Presently AI is already beginning to make inroads in the areas of medicine, legal, marketing, customer service, bookkeeping, financial services, business analytics, transportation, publishing, and others.

Former NASA engineer Mark Moore will now be working on Uber's flying car project, Uber Elevate. SAN FRANCISCO -- George Jetson, your ride is on its way. Uber has just hired a NASA expert to build out its vision for flying cars Monday. Mark Moore, a 30-year veteran of the space agency with expertise in using electric motors to get a vehicle airborne, will help the ride-hailing giant execute on an expansive white paper it released last fall on developing VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) vehicles. "Uber continues to see its role as a catalyst to the growing developing VTOL ecosystem," Nikhil Goel, Uber's head of product for advanced programs, said in a statement.

Microsoft is using the video game Minecraft to help develop artificial intelligence (AI) which can complete complex tasks, and is opening up the research to the general computing public, according to a Monday announcement. Minecraft has been used by the tech company and several academic computer scientists to help develop sophisticated general artificial intelligence, or AI, which can do things like learn, hold conversations, make decisions and complete complex tasks. Microsoft has opened up the project to the general computing public via an open-source license. "Minecraft is very close to the real world in many ways," Jose Hernandez-Orallo, who is a professor at the Technical University of Valencia and has used the system to work on AI, wrote in a press statement. "There are so many possibilities."

Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, and other tech giants are all building their own "bots" that utilize artificial intelligence and machine learning. There are a bevy of other startups doing the same, developing conversational technology that can help humans with everyday tasks. But one small company out of Palo Alto, Calif. is building a virtual assistant that it believes is differentiated and special -- and some top investors seem to agree. Ozlo is a new Silicon Valley startup that last month reeled in 14 million investment round from Greylock and AME Cloud Ventures, a fund started by Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang. It also just opened its first remote office in Seattle and plans to move into a permanent location next month, with room for up to 25 employees.

Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is sending 5,000 connected cars that can wirelessly communicate with other vehicles and infrastructure onto the streets of Ann Arbor, Mich., in a real-world experiment designed to move autonomous driving closer to reality. Toyota is partnering with the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute on the project. Drivers who agree to participate in the tests will have a small data-collecting box installed in the trunk area of their car and two small antennas -- one on or near the rear windshield and another on the roof. The equipment transmits speed and position data from the vehicle to other participating vehicles as well as infrastructure such as traffic signals and research equipment located at intersections or along roadways. Drivers won't be required to take specific routes.