How AI is helping in the fight against coronavirus outbreak.

The current coronavirus epidemic is the first big global test of the power of AI and related technologies. Several countries and organizations have been using various forms of AI since the beginning of the current outbreak. A recent WHO report mentions China's use of Big Data and AI in its response to the outbreak. Broadly, the use of AI has been in supporting the following areas – detection, diagnosis, prediction of spread, containment and development of treatments/vaccine. Since the SARS epidemic, some companies have been using NLP (Natural Language Processing) to track diseases and detect outbreaks across the globe.