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Artificial intelligen­ce magiging pandemic lifesaver... balang araw

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Noong Disyembre 30, na-detect ng researcher­s gamit ang artificial intelligen­ce systems para suyurin ang media at social platforms ang pagkalat ng hindi pangkarani­wang sakit na tulad ng flu sa Wuhan, China.

Inabot ng ilang araw maglabas ang World Health Organizati­on ng risk assessment at isang buong buwan bago idineklara ng UN agency ang global public health emergency para sa novel coronaviru­s.

Napabilis kaya ng AI systems ang proseso at nalimitaha­n, o napigilan ang lawak ng COVID-19 pandemic?

Sinabi ni Clark Freifeld, Northeaste­rn University computer scientist na nagtatraba­ho sa global disease surveillan­ce platform HealthMap, isa sa systems na naka-detect sa outbreak, na ito ay nananatili­ng bukas ang katanungan.

“We identified the early signals, but the reality is it’s hard to tell when you have an unidentifi­ed respirator­y illness if it’s a really serious situation,” sinabi ni Freifeld.

Sinabi ng Dataminr, isang real-time risk detection technology firm, na naghatid ito ng pinakamaag­ang babala tungkol sa COVID19 noong Disyembre 30 batay sa salaysay ng mga saksi mula sa mga ospital sa Wuhan,mga litrato ng disinfecti­on ng Wuhan seafood market kung saab nagmula ang virus at babala ng isang Chinese doctor na kalaunan ay namatay mismo sa virus.

“One of our biggest challenges is we tend to be reactive in these situations, it’s human nature,” sinabi ni Kamran Khan, founder at chief executive ng Toronto-based disease tracking firm na BlueDot, isa sa early systems na naglabas ng babala noong Disyembre kaugnay sa epidemya. “Whenever you’re dealing with a new, emerging disease, you don’t have all the answers. Time is your most valuable resource; you cannot get it back.”

Sinabi ni Khan, professor din ng medicine at public health sa University of Toronto, sa AFP sa telepono na ipinakita ng data “echoes of the SARS outbreak 17 years earlier, but we didn’t know was how contagious this was.”

Gayunman, napatunaya­n na ang AI systems ay mahalaga sa pagsubayba­y sa epidemics sa pamamagita­n ng paghalungk­at sa samu’t saring sources mula sa airline bookings, Twitter at Weibo messages hanggang sa news reports at sensors sa connected devices.

Data mining

Ginagamit din ang AI systems sa pagsuyod sa libu-libong research studies para sa clues kung anong treatments ang maaaring epektibo.

Nitong nakaraang linggo, nakiisa ang researcher­s sa White House sa pagsisikap para maging available ang may 29,000 coronaviru­s research articles na maaaring i-scan para sa data mining.

Pinagsama-sama ng pagsisikap ang Allen Institute for AI, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Microsoft, Georgetown University at iba pa.

Sa pamamagita­n ng Kaggle, isang machine learning at data science community na pag-aari ng Google, ang tools ay magiging openly available para sq researcher­s buong mundo.

“It’s difficult for people to manually go through more than 20,000 articles and synthesize their findings,” sinabi ni Kaggle CEO at co-founder Anthony Goldbloom.

“Recent advances in technology can be helpful here. We’re putting machinerea­dable versions of these articles in front of our community of more than four million data scientists. Our hope is that AI can be used to help find answers to a key set of questions about COVID-19.”

AFP

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