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An AI Epidemiologist Sent the First Warnings of the Wuhan Virus
- ksaj 7y agoDiscovering Li Wenliang's original posts (the actual first warnings) doesn't seem like much of an AI breakthrough, especially when the technology used was essentially Google Alert on keywords. Maybe the real story is that their search engine picked up the story even while Chinese censorship was kicking in. Here's a report about how the censorship aspect is still occurring: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/chinese-government-censor-li-wenliang-dead-weibo-wechat-coronavirus https://nationalpost.com/news/world/chinese-government-censo... This so-called AI article seems like a shameful way to steal credit from whom credit is actually due.