Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out. - The New York Times

Machine learning is known for its ability to spot fraudulent credit charges or recognize faces. Now researchers are siccing the technology on viruses.

Pranav Pandit, an epidemiologist at the University of California at Davis, cautions that these models are very much a work in progress. When tested on well-studied viruses, they do substantially bett… [+1569 chars]

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