Innovation Amidst a Pandemic

So much has changed in recent months. How is the pandemic affecting AI and machine learning innovation?

Most machine learning is used to make predictions about the future and to help business leaders make better decisions today. Fortunately, the type of AI that is used in a self-driving car — which recognizes that a pedestrian or a cyclist is crossing the road — still works as well as it ever did. But for the AI that has been used to determine the outcome of a credit application or to estimate the number of cars that a factory should produce, there are questions about how robust these models are now, given the unprecedented impact of the pandemic. Luckily, there are lots of people working on this issue, and there are new approaches emerging, like unsupervised learning for certain types of problems. But there are definitely plenty of conversations happening about