How artificial intelligence could stamp out malaria Apolitical

Artificial intelligence and smartphones are being trialled to stamp out malaria in remote parts of the Philippines. Technology originally developed for marketers to find Nike ticks and Adidas three-stripes on Instagram has been repurposed to detect the disease in blood samples. A person with no medical training could take a picture of a blood sample with their smartphone, and immediately know whether malaria is present or not. 'If this works, it could be trailblazing, said Marvi Rebueno Trudeau, head of the public-private partnership, including the Shell Foundation and the Global Fund, that is testing the technology. 'The way we're doing it right now, the microscopers collect the blood, make a slide, put it in the microscope.