AI can help doctors, governments fight Covid-19 pandemic

Bengaluru: Artificial intelligence (AI) can help doctors, researchers and governments fight the Covid-19 pandemic, technology giants said while discussing solutions for the highly contagious disease during a webinar organized by Bennett University.

“The Covid-19 pandemic is the most important disruption of our time. It has prompted nations, individuals, and organisations to adopt digital in a big to survive, scale, and succeed. It is helping navigate the pandemic,” said Sandip Patel, Managing Director of India at IBM.

The theme of the global webinar, organised by the Department of Computer Science Engineering of BU on Monday, was ‘AI Solutions for Covid’.