In this day and age, predictive ai has become a tool with loads of potential. In the right application, it can be used for identifying weather disasters, marketing analytics, and even finishing sentences. Rainier Mallol, a thirty year old entrepreneur who co-founded and is now president of AIME, or artificial intelligence in medical epidemiology, has put this tool to quite effective use in the world of viral outbreaks.
Started in his graduate study, AIME was started as a way to predict outbreaks of Dengue and other similar infectious diseases, and provide health officials with information to avoid or alleviate them. Since then, AIME has climbed to the Forbe’s Top 40 World Changers, and boasts a 86.37% accuracy. So far, it has been successfully used in Malaysia, Brazil, and the Philippines.
While the software currently only works to predict three mosqutio-born diseases, those being Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika, this technology, with a little more information, could be used for many other pandemic situations before they become out of control. Though AIME was created in 2016, it has never been more relevant than in today’s post covid world. Millions of people would have benefited from AIME’s ability to predict the viral outbreak of covid and offered solutions on how to minimize its effects. With the right amount of investment in technologies like AIME, we might never see another outbreak like covid again, a post-pandemic world.
Considering how many people fear AI technology and it’s refreshing to see it being used to benefit the world. A product like AIME could truly change how the world function!
The titbit about AIME initially being created for one purpose and being able to helps in a greater scale than initially anticipated reminds me of an article I read a few years ago about a Japanese company that develop a program to sort baked items, but was actually able to identify cancers!