How cutting-edge AI is helping scientists tackle COVID-19

Jun 8, 2020

Kylene Karnuth, a clinical lab scientist, works with coronavirus samples as researchers begin a trial to see whether malaria treatment hydroxychloroquine can prevent or reduce the severity of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. March 19, 2020. REUTERS/Craig Lassig - RC2ANF9Z4NVV

Scientists are racing to find a COVID-19 treatment or vaccine. Artificial Intelligence could help them. Image: REUTERS/Craig Lassig

Pascale Fung

Director of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAiRE) and Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Coronavirus research has exploded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are now more than 60,000 papers. Image: CORD-19: The COVID-19 Open Research Dataset

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