AI in the fight against the coronavirus

With the rise of COVID-19 globally, AI has begun to prove its utility as a means of disease prevention. AI and machine learning has made it possible to track, detect, and fight infectious diseases. Over a week before the World Health Organization declared the discovery of a novel coronavirus, an AI trained with data from health organizations, flights, news and livestock health reports had detected a cluster of “unusual pneumonia” cases localized to a market in Wuhan, China, the origin of the virus. Another AI company has developed an AI-assisted thermal camera capable of screening 200 people a minute, which is able to identify people with above average body temperature, a task once done manually and much slower than the camera setup. An AI developed by Chinese tech giant Alibaba has a 96% accuracy in detecting coronavirus from chest CT scans in only 20 seconds, compared to the 15 minutes it would take a human to diagnose. AI also has use for helping cure diseases, able to find new information on protein structures of COVID-19 which will help researchers develop a vaccine.

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/03/21/why-ai-might-be-the-most-effective-weapon-we-have-to-fight-covid-19/