AI TO THE RESCUE

AI TO THE RESCUE

THE HIGHLY CONNECTED 21^ST CENTURY CAN ENABLE DISEASES TO SPREAD WITH RAPIDITY. AI COULD BE ONE OF THE WAYS TO MITIGATE THIS DANGER

The Corona virus is more virulent and dangerous. It has confirmed a death of over 630 people over a limited span of time. Almost 30000 infections are reported in at least 25 nations. Meeting the threat of this virus has been a test case for AI. AI is used to mine data to identify and isolate potential carriers and victims. AI is also used to try and generate new vaccines and to identify the new drugs that will combat the new virus.

Canadian AI company Blue dot has issued health warnings to its clients. Their clients include businesses and public health officials of several countries. Blue dot also issued an advisory stating that travelers should avoid Wuhan. The WHO has also issued a similar notice on January 9,2020. America’s CDC has issued its first public warning on January 6. The Blue dot has used an global airline ticketing data in order to predict that this virus will be exported to Bangkok, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo.

In order to identify where the virus has been taking hold, The Harvard Medical School is running an International team, which machine learning to analyse social media posts, news reports, public health channels, and information  supplied b y doctors. Fin tech company, Hedge Chatter built a neutral network to generate a day by day forecast of the numbers infected, geographical spread, death toll etc. It predicted that up to 2.5 billion people of the whole population could be infected within the next 45 days and the aftermath may rise to over 52 million. This is just an prediction and this will happen only if there do not occur any consistent changes in the disease spreading.

Chinese authorities make use of AI to mine data. Apps have been created to enable citizens to check if they have been in a bus train or plain with a confirmed victim. These things all has enabled a great surveillance system for China.

Baidu which is an Chinese equivalent of Google has enabled a system that uses a combination of infrared and face recognition to identify the people with higher body temperature. It is been said that it can check over 200 people in a minute. It is really far faster than the standard thermal scanners at airports.