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AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped

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Re: AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped

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nradov wrote: post #130
bumby wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I vaguely remember reading more about this elsewhere and I believe they only used COVID positive patients. It would be interesting if there are follow-up studies with mixed training data if true.

No the researchers tested using both positive and negative patients.

Ah, ok. I think this was the article I originally read which implies they only used 2,500 covid positive patients. But rereading it, maybe it’s just unclear reporting.

“Across around 2,500 captured cough recordings of people confirmed to have COVID-19, the AI correctly identified 97.1 percent of them – and 100 percent of the asymptomatic cases.”

https://www.sciencealert.com/ai-cough-analysis-could-detect-...

Re: AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped

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briefcomment wrote: post #12
tablespoon wrote: post #9

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That's a false choice. There's also: - Technology not suitable or adequate for this use case. I mean, we've been to the "AI over-promises and under-delivers" rodeo before.

You think a 100% failure rate on the hottest topic in the world right now is likely?

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Re: AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped

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Post by nradov »

ahD5zae7 wrote: post #116

Yeah, I guess it would be cool to do an X-ray or CT scan of every patient, preferably in repeatable and controlled conditions similar to the AI training set. On the other hand there supposedly were very good results with training dogs to identify covid patients by smell alone. Which sounds faster, cheaper and probably even less error prone (judging by this article). I guess it doesn't scale well and there's not much…

X-rays and CT scans involve some expense and radiation exposure. It makes no sense to subject every patient to such imaging studies. We have cheaper and safer tests to diagnose most cases of COVID-19.

Re: AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them helped

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Post by rhizome »

throwawayboise wrote: post #41
selimthegrim wrote: post #38

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The point was if he rushed it. The companies delayed their announcement and strengthened the trials so the current Trumpista favorite argument would in theory lose steam.

No. They didn't want Trump to have that "win." It was purely political. The vaccines they are pushing now are the very same ones that were developed and tested while Trump was in office.

Would you agree that if Trump thought the vaccine was delayed to make him look bad we'd hear him shouting it from the rooftops?
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