NEW YORK: Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that may accurately predict which patients newly infected with the virus that causes Covid-19 would go on to develop severe respiratory disease. The study, published in the journal Computers, Materials & Continua, also revealed the best indicators of future severity, and found that they were not as expected. "While work remains to further validate our model, it holds promise as another tool to predict the patients most vulnerable to the virus, but only in support of physicians' hard-won clinical experience in treating viral infections," said Megan Coffee, a clinical assistant professor at New York University (NYU) in the US. "Our goal was to design and deploy a decision-support tool using AI capabilities -- mostly predictive analytics -- to flag future clinical coronavirus severity," said Anasse Bari, a clinical assistant professor at New York University. "We hope that the tool, when fully developed, will be useful to physicians as they assess which moderately ill patients really need beds, and who can safely go home, with hospital resources stretched thin," Bari said.

KOCHI: Don't be surprized if you receive personalized offers based on your vehicle profile, the next time you pull into an Indian Oil petrol pump. Neuroplex, a startup that emerged from Future Technologies Lab an initiative by Kerala Startup Mission has signed an agreement with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) to use artificial intelligence (AI) to qualitatively improve customer interaction and safety in their petrol pumps across the country. Their signature product'Eyes Age' uses deep learning to empower video surveillance with AI capabilities. It creates visual relationships between objects in the video which allows for a logical analysis of video data. "The system can identify customers by analysing the number plate of the vehicle and give them unique offers," said Keerthi, a developer with Neuroplex.

Humanoid robot bartender "Carl" prepares a drink for a guest at the Robots Bar and Lounge in the eastern German town of Ilmenau. NEXT time you stop for petrol at a self-serve pump, say hello to the robot in front of you. Its life story can tell you a lot about the robot economy roaring toward us like an EF5 tornado on the prairie. Yeah, your automated petrol pump killed a lot of jobs over the years, but its biography might give you hope that the coming wave of automation driven by artificial intelligence (AI) will turn out better for almost all of us than a lot of people seem to think. The first crude version of an automated petrol-delivering robot appeared in 1964 at a station in Westminster, Colorado.