Re ML for audio of a forced cough to detect COVID, my prior here is that ~all new impressive results in the ML space fail to work in the real world. Translating from the lab to reality is just really hard in the ML space, especially once you are talking about things like audio which vary a lot depending on the environment and mic.
All of which is to say someone should definitely build an app, but it’s far from a slam dunk that it’ll work.
The good news is that according to the paper, they are working with someone already:
“To that end, we have reached an agreement with a Fortune 100 company to demonstrate the value of our tool as part of their COVID-19 management practices.”
Most of the value here will be in the third world, I think—by the time this is ready to go we’ll have access to vaccines in first world countries.
From my personal experience reading ML research papers and transferring the technology to consumer applications, the data used to test algorithms in papers tends to be far cleaner than real world data.
Re ML for audio of a forced cough to detect COVID, my prior here is that ~all new impressive results in the ML space fail to work in the real world. Translating from the lab to reality is just really hard in the ML space, especially once you are talking about things like audio which vary a lot depending on the environment and mic.
All of which is to say someone should definitely build an app, but it’s far from a slam dunk that it’ll work.
The good news is that according to the paper, they are working with someone already:
“To that end, we have reached an agreement with a Fortune 100 company to demonstrate the value of our tool as part of their COVID-19 management practices.”
Most of the value here will be in the third world, I think—by the time this is ready to go we’ll have access to vaccines in first world countries.
From my personal experience reading ML research papers and transferring the technology to consumer applications, the data used to test algorithms in papers tends to be far cleaner than real world data.