Dr. William Yates, a former trauma surgeon who now manages the Chicago-based company Yates Enterprises, started off selling metal detectors; Now he wants to find fevers. “With COVID, we know that having a fever is the only hard sign of people who are symptomatic,” he said. “And the country has to get back to work,” he said. The technology is already in place at Mazzone Pasta factory in suburban Bloomingdale, where employees stop at the non-contact scanner as they enter the facility.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
No thanks.