Right from Governments to Healthcare Institutes to Enterprises, everyone can leverage Artificial Intelligence to fight the COVID-19 Pandemic. While there can be many applications of AI, but the this article is focused on an essential purpose, and that is to stop the transmission of Coronavirus.
Thus, in such a critical time, when it comes to stopping the transmission of Coronavirus, Artificial Intelligence can help in all the major aspects of fighting this pandemic and the Acronym of these aspects comes to T.I.M.E
Role of Artificial Intelligence in fighting the Coronavirus by tackling the T.I.M.E issues:
Let us understand each aspect and how AI can help in battling COVID-19:
T:Tracking and Monitoring:
Not only can AI be deployed to track and analyse the data sent by all the countries and understand the global impact of the pandemic. Even on organisational levels AI can be deployed to track and monitor the situations and movement of the potential and confirmed Coronavirus patients. AI can also be used to monitor the temperatures of patients in the hospitals and can be used to track and notify authorities in real-time in case it observes a breach in social distancing or the breach of isolation by patients.
I- Information Validation:
One of the biggest problems that the world is facing currently in this global crisis is the spread of the Fake News. Recently, Facebook declared that once the news published on a page or group is deemed fake, they will notify all the followers of the page and group. This will be done with AI and similarly, Google is also planning to employ similar ways to fight fake news on COVID-19. Apart from these, AI can also be used to compare and validate the information of news platforms with the official and credible COVID-19 sources and with that analytics, AI can not only help in stopping the spread of the Fake News, but can also track the source from where the news was circulated.
M-Medical Research:
AI is already been used by many medical institutes to find the cure of diseases! An algorithm is developed that can be used to collect, sort and analyse all the data collected and then use the same algorithm to find the cure in mere 10-12 months of time which traditionally was 4-5 years. With the similar logic and purpose, AI can be used to analyse the COVID-19 data and it can be used to find the cure for it
E-Enforcing Social Distancing in workplaces:
Social distancing is the optimum solution currently to stop the transmission of Coronavirus and thus, it is essential that all the industries that are functional during these crisis situations enforce all their organisational members to practice social distancing. To ensure that this is enforced effectively, AI can be used to monitor and track employees for Social Distancing and to send real-time breach alerts.
While the Coronavirus has the upper hand currently, with social distancing it is possible to fight this pandemic and restrict its damages to minimum. And to ensure that social distancing and humanity prevails, AI can be the knight with the unbreakable armour.
