{"id":7366,"date":"2020-04-05T17:23:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T17:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7366"},"modified":"2020-04-05T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T17:23:11","slug":"how-useful-is-ai-in-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7366","title":{"rendered":"How useful is AI in a pandemic?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong>DER SPIEGEL:<\/strong>\u00a0What are the lessons to be learned from this crisis<\/p><p><strong>Dr\u00e4ger:<\/strong>\u00a0It shows that common sense is more important than we all thought. This situation is so new and complicated that the problems can only be solved by people who carefully weigh their decisions. Artificial intelligence, which everyone has been talking so much about recently, isn&#8217;t much help at the moment.<\/p><cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/international\/germany\/german-ventilator-manufacturer-absolutely-mission-impossible-a-549d1e18-8c21-45f1-846f-cf5ca254b008\">Absolutely Mission Impossible: Interview with German Ventilator Manufacturer<\/a>, <em>Speigel International<\/em>, Interviewed by Lukas Eberle und Martin U. M\u00fcller, March 27th, 2020.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There are so many lessons to be learned from the Coronavirus, but one lesson is that artificial intelligence isn&#8217;t always the solution. In a health crisis that has to do with viruses in the air, not information, AI is only indirectly useful. As the head of production of the German Dr\u00e4gerwerk ventilator manufacturer company puts it, the challenge of choosing who to sell ventilators to in this time is not one to handed over to an AI. Humans carefully weighing decisions (and taking responsibility for them) is what is needed in a crisis. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DER SPIEGEL:\u00a0What are the lessons to be learned from this crisis Dr\u00e4ger:\u00a0It shows that common sense is more important than we all thought. This situation is so new and complicated that the problems can only be solved by people who carefully weigh their decisions. Artificial intelligence, which everyone has been talking so much about recently, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=7366\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How useful is AI in a pandemic?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,54,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-big-data","category-ethics-of-data-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7366"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7368,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7366\/revisions\/7368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}