Can AI flag disease outbreaks faster than humans? Not quite

In early January, Isaac Bogoch, an infectious disease physician and researcher at Toronto General Hospital, analysed commercial flight data with BlueDot founder Kamran Khan (pic) to see which cities outside mainland China were most connected to Wuhan. Their research showed that the highest volume of flights from Wuhan were to Thailand, Japan, and Hong Kong. 'Lo and behold, a few days later we started to see cases pop up in these places,' Bogoch said. — AFP

BOSTON: Did an artificial-intelligence system beat human doctors inwarning the world of a severe coronavirus outbreak in China?

In a narrow sense, yes. But what the humans lacked in sheer speed, they more than made up in finesse.