Khan, founder and chief executive of Toronto-based BlueDot, said AI is helping in the containment phase with systems that used ‘anonymized’ smartphone location data to track the progression of the disease and find hotspots, and to determine if people are following ‘social distancing’ guidelines. — AFP
WASHINGTON: On Dec 30, researchers using artificial intelligence systems to comb through media and social platforms detected the spread of an unusual flu-like illness in Wuhan, China.
It would be days before the World Health Organisation released a risk assessment and a full month before the UN agency declared a global public health emergency for the novel coronavirus.
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