Natural language processing is being used by a team of researchers to help look through the massive amounts of data available on Covid-19, reports SciTechDaily.

A team of materials scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) – scientists who normally spend their time researching things like high-performance materials for thermoelectrics or battery cathodes – have built a text-mining tool in record time to help the global scientific community synthesize the mountain of scientific literature on COVID-19 being generated every day.

Artificial intelligence isn’t capable of weeding out misinformation on the internet, reports The Hill. 

More than 3 billion people–around 50 percent of the world’s population–engage with and post content online. Some of that content is misleading and potentially harmful, whether by design or as a side effect of its spread and manipulation.

According to Wired, the creator of the Watson computer is teaching artificial intelligence common sense.

David Ferrucci, the man who built IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing machine, Watson, is explaining a children’s story to his new creation.

According to Tech Republic, artificial intelligence is helping to track the spread of Covid-19.

As the coronavirus continues to spread around the globe, we've seen a surge in the use of cutting edge technologies to track and control the pandemic, especially artificial intelligence. It seems like only a distant memory when artificial intelligence (AI) was being discussed as an emergent "existential threat" to humanity.