Baidu's AI Technology Being Used to Combat Coronavirus

On January 6th, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notified the public that a flu-like outbreak was propagating in Wuhan City, in the Hubei Province of China. Subsequently, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a similar report on January 9th. While these responses may seem timely, they were slow when compared to an AI company called BlueDot. BlueDot released a report on December 31st, a full week before the CDC released similar information. Even more impressive, BlueDot predicted the Zika outbreak in Florida six months before the first case in 2016.