India, Sept. 21 -- The challenge of COVID-19 has accelerated a number of existing technology and business trends creating significant opportunities for companies that offer or deploy artificial intelligence. But it has also presented new, never-before-experienced problems for them.

Over the past six months, society has undergone a 101 course in statistics. People for whom datasets used to be a foreign language now look with interest at the latest statistical results to see whether the curve is indeed being flattened. They are following the variables and attempts to identify the key parameters and extrapolating from the information available to make predictions about prospects for the future. In short, large sections of society have becom...