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Toward the tail end of pre-pandemic 2019, Mayo Clinic Chief Information Officer Cris Ross stood on a stage in California and declared, This artificial intelligence stuff is real.
Indeed, while some may argue that AI and machine learning might have been harnessed better during the early days of COVID-19, and while the risk of algorithmic bias is very real, there s little question that artificial intelligence, evolving and maturing by the day for an array of use cases across healthcare.
Here are the most-read stories about AI during this most unusual year.
UK to use AI for COVID-19 vaccine side effects. On a day when vaccines, developed in record time, first begin to be administered in the U.S., it s worth remembering AI s crucial role in helping the world get to this hopefully pivotal moment.