AI Development Pushed by Pandemics

COVID19, also known as coronavirus, has developed into a recent global threat. The disease has no cure, no treatments, and no means of controlling it – other than isolation, social distancing, face masks, and hand washing. One form of technology that has shown its capability in tracing, tracking, and helping to prevent the spread of the virus comes through artificial intelligence or AI. AI systems were already in use as a tool to help predict and prevent the spread of viruses in the health community. It was an AI-based system that first discovered an unknown form of pneumonia that was spreading around Wuhan, China, giving insight that an epidemic was in its beginnings.