AI could help predict the next deadly human outbreak of a virus.
Published on : Tuesday 04-02-2020
The technology of artificial intelligence has been improving every year. Many companies and organisations are actively employing AI in different ways.
Artificial intelligence are able to solve the problems that are very different from those that can be solved with a machine, in an extremely fast and scalable fashion. Artificial intelligence can help you think about the data you generate more efficiently. It can generate more accurate predictions.
For most of us, the idea of machine learning may sound like science fiction, but it has already been used in a wide variety of applications. Many more applications include the way we understand texts online and what a person writes on a piece of paper. Artificial intelligence can learn in an almost infinite variety of scenarious and situations. The feild has been compared to the internet itself, because of all the ways it can be used to improve our lives. Today there are many companies working on various AI projects that are shaping the future of the technology. There are many more companies are using AI to automate tasks in the workplace and beyond. For example: Every few decades, a pandemic flu variant emerges that not only infects humans but also passes rapidly from person to person.
Swine flu Computations:
To identify mutations that transform a pig or birds virus into a human one. Scientists traditionally compared the protein sequences from virus strains before & after they developed the ability to infect people. As evidenced by the outbreakes of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, Influenza A H1N1 (or “Swine Flu”) in 2009, Ebola & Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) in 2014, and the Zika Virus in 2016, infectious diseases can spread rapidly within countries & across national borders. Public health policy makers are tasked with deciding the nature and timing of appropriate courses of action to prevent, detect and respond to an infectious disease outbreak.
AI helped spot an early warning about the emanation of coronavirus.
The above picture shared by China's National Microbiology Data Center shows the first- ever specimen of the novel coronavirus, known as '2019 nCov', extracted from a patient An AI powered platform had detected and sent warning of coronavirus outbreak. “BlueDot”, a global health monitoring platform based in Canada reportedly notified its clients of the outbreak on December-31. AI Algorithm analyzes global news reports, animal & plant desease networks, airline ticketing data and official announcements to predict & detect potential epidemics.
In the case of coronavirus outbreak BlueDots algorithm reportedly used airline ticketing information to accurately predict the virus’ rapid spread from Wuhan, China, to Bankok, Seoul, Taipei & Tokyo. But artificial intelligence can be far more useful than just keeping epidemiologists and officials informed as a disease pops up. The idea of AI battling deadly disease offers a case where we might feel slightly less uneasy, if not altogether hopeful. Perhaps this technology if developed and used properly could actually help save some lives. BlueDot’s algorithm uses machine learning & natural language processing technology to detect signs of potential desease outbreaks from the collected information. Human epidemiologists then review & verify the AI’s findings before sending the report to the company’s clients in government, industry & public health, as well as other public health officials, airlines & hospitals in the affected regions.
Recently China use robots to take care of patients infected with coronavirus. Robots can also used to assist doctors in treating the highly contagious disease. Authorities have now taken the help of Artificial Intelligence to ease the crisis.
