Meanwhile, telehealth efforts in Uganda and a number of other other African nations have extended health care to millions in the course of the pandemic. In a half of the world with a persistent lack of doctors, remote health care has been a life saver. Sandy Ong reports on the exceptional success of online learning in Asia and the spread of telemedicine in Africa. Getting that shift right has been particularly crucial in health care and training.
Estimates on the arrival of synthetic general intelligence vary, but half of machine learning consultants surveyed in 2018 imagine that AI will “accomplish …