AI Technology To Diagnose COVID based on Cough Pattern; Instant Testing
Wadhwani Institue of Artificial Intelligence designed a device to detect COVID infection based on your 'cough' patterns. The institute suggested that this could be a cost-effective tool to test coronavirus instantly, especially in remote areas. "The tool can also be used to diagnose the severity of tuberculosis," they added. The institute is backed by Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the tools are currently being tested in Bihar and… read-more
Tags: Coronavirus, Covid-19 Test, India, Artificial Intelligence
Courtesy: The Economic Times
Scientists Develop System to Detect Rare Diseases from Portraits
An Artificial Intelligence system has been developed by the scientists from Berlin to detect rare diseases. The AI system will be using the portrait photos of people and their health data to diagnose rare diseases. Reportedly, the software detects the facial features of the person affected, who shows abnormalities in a photo. The computer program has been trained using 30,000 portrait pictures of people affected.
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Berlin, Germany, Rare Disease
Courtesy: Free Press Journal
IIT Bombay UG Students Launch AI-Based Document Scanning Application
Rohit Kumar Chaudhary and Kavin Agrawal, final-year students from the Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay, developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) mobile application called "AIR Scanner". The app works as a reading assistant and document scanner. It scans documents and reads it to users who have trouble reading English. It also gives the meaning of any selected word, in 40 different languages. The Indian government recently banned… read-more
Tags: IIT Bombay, Mumbai, application, Artificial Intelligence
Courtesy: The Free Press Journal
IBM Designed its New Processor Chip; Samsung Set to Manufacture It
International Business Machines (IBM) on August 17 said it has designed a Power10 Processor Chip, a family of multi-core processors that are intended to be used in data centers. The processor can manage thrice the workload of its predecessor and is 20 times faster in Artificial Intelligence Computing, says IBM. The processor is set to be manufactured by Samsung Electronics.
Tags: IBM, Processor, Data Centers, Artificial Intelligence
Courtesy: Live Mint
Indian Army: Training in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
With rising tension at the borders, the Indian Army has presently attempted a significant learning on "niche and disruptive warfare technologies," which ranges from drone swarms, robotics, lasers to Artificial Intelligence. This is in an attempt to improve the 13-lakh strong Army's future military arrangements. It expects to revolve around the effective cooperation of soldiers and such… read-more
Tags: Indian Army, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, border clash
Courtesy: The Times of India