Jo Best

Jo Best

Jo Best has been covering IT for over a decade for publications including silicon.com, Guardian Government Computing, and ZDNet in both London and Sydney. As a freelance writer and full-time student, Jo has an interest in health, mobile, an…d emerging tech.

Jo Best has nothing to disclose but her love of vegan cake. She holds no shares and has no business relationships with any of the companies she writes about.

Latest from Jo Best

AI, MD: How artificial intelligence is changing the way illness is diagnosed and treated

While privacy and regulation will slow the pace of adoption, AI will bring some profound changes to healthcare.

April 27, 2016 by Jo Best in AI & Robotics

AIs are getting smarter, fast. That's creating tricky questions that we can't answer

AIs don't have human-level abilities yet, and they might never have them. But there are questions of responsibility, rights and moral status that we still need to talk about today.

May 17, 2021 by Jo Best in AI & Robotics

AI and the coronavirus fight: How artificial intelligence is taking on COVID-19

From moderating social media to unpicking the very essence of COVID-19, AI is helping tackle the coronavirus in all manner of ingenious ways.

April 9, 2020 by Jo Best in AI & Robotics

Open-source AI tool aims to help identify coronavirus infections

One Canadian startup has created a tool to detect coronavirus infections on X-rays.

April 9, 2020 by Jo Best in AI & Robotics

The ghost in the machine: Vicarious and the search for AI that can rival the human brain

Startup Vicarious is aiming to build the first general artificial intelligence system -- just don't expect it any time soon.

March 2, 2016 by Jo Best in AI & Robotics