Dylan George, director of operations, Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), noted the important symbiotic role of data and AI, and how the agency is looking to use it going into the future.

“The problem is that you have very small datasets and then most AI sort of approaches require a fairly large corpus of data to be really effective. And then to avoid a lot of the biases. And so sort of that’s one of the reasons why we are looking to use artificial intelligence for these genomic sequencing sorts of problem sets or for bigger datasets like mobility data,” stated George… Read the full article here.