Council Post: How AI Is Helping Humans Fight The Invisible Enemy

The first cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) were reported in late December 2019, in the city of Wuhan. Nearly three months later, at the time of writing this article, COVID-19 has been diagnosed in 167 countries, resulting in over 89,000 deaths at the time of this writing, as reported by the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center. The shock wave that the disease has sent throughout the world will have unprecedented consequences for virtually all aspects of the global economy. While the world entered a state of war with an invisible enemy, all possible ways of tipping the scales of victory in favor of humanity are welcome. One such way is by means of applying artificial intelligence (AI) to aid in tasks that are typically highly complex for humans and thus consume much more time.