Artificial intelligence that analyzes cough sounds to detect covid-19 was reported to be 99% accurate, but a comprehensive analysis shows it to be only about 60% accurate. increase
technology
January 3, 2023
AI that listens to people cough isn’t very good at predicting if they have covid-19 Drazen Zizic/Shutterstock
AI is no better at predicting whether someone has covid-19 than a simple questionnaire asking people about their self-reported symptoms.
A number of previous studies have suggested that AI systems can detect specific sounds that indicate covid-19 infection in people’s coughs and voices, with reported accuracies as high as 99%. But by testing the AI on a comprehensive covid-19 dataset from the UK National Health Service, researchers have shown how impressive the AI’s performance is…
