Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. | MIT Technology Review

Some have been used in hospitals, despite not being properly tested. But the pandemic could help make medical AI better.

Hundreds of AI tools have been built to catch covid. None of them helped. | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content When covid-19 struck Europe in March 2020, hospitals were hit by a health crisis they were not prepared for. “Doctors really didn’t have a clue how to manage these patients,” says Laure Wynants, an epidemiologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, who studies predictive AI tools. But there was data coming out of China, which had a four-month head start in the race to beat the pandemic . If machine-learning algorithms could be trained on that data to help doctors understan

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