Thomas Siebel who founded C3.ai is using his company to find a way to slow the spread of Coronavirus. The goal of this is to stimulate finding new ways to slow the spread of thee virus, developing drugs and vaccines and even improving on current methods to change the way that situations like this outbreak of Coronavirus are handled in the future. This company specifically is setting this research up at potentially 26 different universities with a due date of May for their research. The founder, Siebel is very hopeful that at least something good will come of this use of artificial intelligence.
What I can imagine this use of Artificial Intelligence looking like is stimulations and decision making. Problem-solving is obviously a huge part of of Artificial Intelligence and slowing down the spread of Coronavirus. So using these technologies some very interesting solutions could result. I cannot fathom what kind of problem-solving goes into to controlling a pandemic however, that is part of the beauty of Artificial Intelligence, it can tap into ideas that the average human might not be able to even fathom.
The results of this in the coming weeks have the potential to bee quite interesting and could call for some new strategies on how we treat the virus and slow the spread of it.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/26/science/ai-versus-the-coronavirus.html
As the world moves further and further towards automation the use of artificial intelligence can be especailly useful in handling situlations such as these.Although we have never experienced a situataion like Covid-19 there are many variables that should be and could be considered when making descions. It would also be important to utlize the historic procedures of counties in the past regarding pandemic situations.
I am interested as to what Siebel and C3.ai will come up with in the coming weeks as well as if the information will be factual and usable in terms of the the nations current situation. How can we be assued that this data will not be skewed to fit the the agenda of a certain person or group of people?