AI and big data won’t work miracles in the fight against coronavirus
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/26/ai-and-big-data-wont-work-miracles-in-the-fight-against-coronavirus/
To someone with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail — and as expected, the tech sector is hard at work hammering every nail it can find. But the analytical prowess of the modern data ecosystem is especially limited when attempting to tackle the problem of potential coronavirus treatments.
It’s only to be expected — and of course lauded — that companies with immense computing resources would attempt to dedicate those resources in some way to the global effort to combat the virus.