Episode 20

What AI Told Us About Covid-19

This week, we are speaking to Quilt.AI Founder and Chief Product Officer, Dr. Angad Chowdhry on What AI Told Us About COVID-19. Quilt.AI describe the internet as “a repository of human behaviour, opinions, preferences, and social interactions.” Their team of Anthropologists, semioticians, designers, engineers, data scientists and mathematicians are using these digital fragments to understand people and culture at scale. They have been doing some fascinating work, including research on child protection and suicide, and launching their climate change dashboard! We discuss their research on how COVID-19 has impacted human behaviours.

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Listen back to our interview with Dr. Chowdhry and Quilt.AI CEO Anurag Banerjee in the episode AI for Social Good.

Visit the Quilt.AI website.

Follow Quilt.AI on Facebook.

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Quilt.AI launched their climate change analysis tool, learn more about it in the post Putting Climate and Data Into Action.

Discover more about Covid-19 trends in India in the article The Pandemic’s Impact on Young People in India.

Watch Dr. Chowdhry present findings on adolescent women’s health in India, in the video Emerging Adolescent Health Issues During and Post Covid-19.

Read about how Covid-19 has affected climate trends in the article Post-COVID 19 Collective Action on Climate Change in India: How Do We Get There?.

Learn more about Quit.ai’s awareness-building campaigns in the article To Flush and Forget?

Read about how Quilt are using cultural AI to gain deeper insights into human behaviour, in the article Making Machines Human: How Quilt.AI is Indexing Humanity at Scale.

Learn more about Quilt.AI’s pioneering research in the video interview The Pioneer Conversations with Angad Singh Chowdhry.

Find out the meaning behind some weird Covid-19 trends in the article Tablescaping, Cottagecore, Everesting: 3 Unexpected Lockdown Trends and what they mean to us.

Find out how people have been spending their time in isolation in the article A big year for Staying Home: Cribs during Coronavirus Times.