Did you know Neural istaking the stage on Sept 30 and Oct 1?
This could go a long way towards preparing us for the next pandemic.
COVID-19 and dozens of other viruses that affect humans have been traced back to animal diseases.
Such illnesses are called zoonotic.
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Thankfully, millions of years of evolution has given us a pretty advanced immune system.
And that means of the estimated 1.67 million possible animal viruses, only a small fraction can infect humans.
That makes it harder to predict a COVID-19 situation.
The Glasgow team hopes to make things easier using AI.
The hope was that the AI would be able to identify potential threats before they become full-blown epidemics.
They were able to develop machine learning models capable of identifying candidate zoonoses using viral genomes.
Quick take:This is an example of a perfect job for artificial intelligence.
Humans have a clear bias against disease.
We hate things like COVID-19 and cancer.
And our bias translates perfectly to machine learning models.
AI doesnt do a better job than us, but it does a much faster job than we can.
This is why its great for mundane tasks that dont involve making choices for or about humans.
