So many AI developers are coming up with creative, useful COVID-19 applications during this time of crisis. Among those are Timo from Deepset-AI and Tony from Intel. They are working on a question answering system for pandemic-related questions called COVID-QA. In this episode, they describe the system, related annotation of the CORD-19 data set, and ways that you can contribute!Sponsors:DigitalOcean – DigitalOcean’s developer cloud makes it simple to launch in the cloud and scale up as you grow. They have an intuitive control panel, predictable pricing, team accounts, worldwide availability with a 99.99% uptime SLA, and 24/7/365 world-class support to back that up. Get your $100 credit at do.co/changelog. AI Classroom – An immersive, 3 day virtual training in AI with Practical AI co-host Daniel Whitenack Fastly – Our bandwidth partner. Fastly powers fast, secure, and scalable digital experiences. Move beyond your content delivery network to their powerful edge cloud platform. Learn more at fastly.com. Featuring:Timo Möeller – GitHub, LinkedInTony Reina – GitHub, LinkedInChris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, XDaniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, XShow Notes:COVID-QACORD-19Episode featuring SpaCySentence transformersEpisode on BERTGerman BERT from Deepset-AIHugging Face TransformersHaystack from Deepset-AIDeepmind molecular structure with RL projectUpcoming Events: Register for upcoming webinars here!