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Did AI Tools Help Doctors During the Pandemic?

This week a Montreal-based artificial intelligence startup named Stratuscent issued a press release promising “the world’s first AI-powered air quality monitor” for both Covid-19 and influenza. And as an added bonus, it monitors indoor mold risk and tracks nine other air contaminants, including “tobacco odor,” their press release says).

Of course, there’s a large universe of papers to review, and their level of detail might not always be available for this kind of academic analysis.

Last December, participants in the Turing Institute‘s workshops suggested accessible and centralized “data lakes,” along with protocols for data standardization.

We need to draw on our experiences during this pandemic to ensure that data science and AI continue to change lives for the better.”