Ask HN: What impact, if any, did AI/ML have in accelerating Covid-19 research?

I've read too many of Michael Nielsen's articles and recently got curious about making science go faster. This seems like precedent for that.

I found an old Kaggle competition[1] along these lines, but I don't know if it did anyone any good.

I don't mean to clog up HN with more LLM spam! I doubt medical researchers would appreciate a wrapper around ChatGPT telling them what to do.

[1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/allen-institute-for-ai/CORD-19-research-challenge