AI-Driven Test System Detects Bacteria In Water

"Clean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floors, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights."1 Obtaining clean water is a critical problem for much of the world's population. Testing and confirming a clean water source typically requires expensive test equipment and manual analysis of the results. For regions in the world in which access to clean water is a continuing problem, simpler test methods could dramatically help prevent disease and save lives. To apply artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to evaluating the purity of water sources, Peter Ma, an Intel Software Innovator, developed an effective system for identifying bacteria using pattern recognition and machine learning.