How AI can be used for good

As an IBM master inventor, professor at UC Irvine, and author of "Own the A.I. Revolution: Unlock Your Artificial Intelligence Strategy to Disrupt Your Competition," Sahota is also a lead artificial intelligence adviser to the United Nations and is helping find ways for AI to provide solutions and prevent future pandemics. Even now, AI is being used to create systems that can impact how treatments for COVID-19 are used. One such AI tool was developed at UC Irvine last year to help predict the probability of patients needing ICU care. This involved collecting the data of patients to get common symptoms of the coronavirus as well as how to accelerate treatment and care options. Other examples include AI-powered walking sticks for the blind, tools to help those who can't speak, and health care apps that use a cell phone to detect diabetes, tuberculosis and skin diseases through the camera and microphone.