The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
How AI Predicted the Coronavirus Outbreak with Kamran Khan - #350
19 Feb 2020
Today we’re joined by Kamran Khan, founder & CEO of BlueDot, and professor of medicine and public health at the University of Toronto. BlueDot has been the recipient of a lot of attention for being the first to publicly warn about the coronavirus that started in Wuhan. How did the company’s system of algorithms and data processing techniques help flag the potential dangers of the disease? In our conversation, Kamran talks us through how the technology works, its limits, and the motivation behind the wor
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