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Science and innovation in times of a pandemic

Mila’s COVI project has found itself at the centre of a public debate regarding the use of an app in the fight against COVID-19.
Published
June 11 2020
By
Yoshua Bengio

Peer-to-peer AI-tracing of COVID-19

Social distancing works but in its simplest form it is brutal and economically very damaging. We have already seen how tracing and testing can greatly improve it by applying social distancing at the right places, around infected people.
Published
March 23 2020
By
Yoshua Bengio
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