Photo: HealthMap shows activity related to the new strain of coronavirus around the world. (Supplied) People’s Google searches, social media posts and even chatbot questions are being used by artificial intelligence to try and predict where the novel coronavirus is going to pop up next. HealthMap is one technology using artificial intelligence to track the coronavirus outbreak The technology uses publicly available data as well as information submitted through crowdsourcing Other projects are tracking flight data and online purchases to learn more about the spread of the virus The technology, which has been fine-tuned over the last 15 years, is already feeding information to major health agencies like the World Health Organisation to help them decide where they should focus their efforts. One system, called HealthMap, uses publicly available data from across the internet as well as user-submitted information, according to one of its developers, John Brownstein, a professor […]