"Resume" has started one after another in various regions. To say who is the most nervous, the competent functional departments in areas with concentrated industries and concentrated floating population are undoubtedly listed. Qixia District of Nanjing is an important industry, one of the main gathering place for college, coming back to the rather large floating population are part of the flow here, a huge amount of personnel information verification, registration and safety reminders have become a challenge.
At this time, AI came in handy. For example, the Qixia Branch of the Nanjing Public Security Bureau deployed Huawei Cloud and Yizhizhizhi ’s “intelligent voice epidemic return visit system”, which uses voice robots to set the dialogue content of the police (such as returning to Nanjing time, etc.) ) Conduct telephone verification and prompting for temporary residents in the jurisdiction. Here, AI involvement greatly enhance the efficiency and reduce the pressure of grass-roots work, a more comprehensive grasp of information and Publicizing also strengthen epidemic prevention and control capabilities.
In fact, the "voice robot" with one hundred assisted investigation is just one of many AI-assisted anti-epidemic scenarios.
A few days ago, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's Science and Technology Department issued a proposal on "Fully exerting the power of artificial intelligence to fight against the epidemic". The initiative clearly blew the charge of the artificial intelligence industry.
A large number of artificial intelligence manufacturers such as Huawei Cloud have responded and actively participated in this war of anti-epidemic. Based on the early accumulation, various AI systems, platforms and products that specifically support anti-epidemic have been developed in a relatively short period of time.
AI research support
"Efficiency" value runs through detection and prevention
On the front line, AI has been intuitively displayed to the public, and its outstanding performance is "efficiency".
1. Viral nucleic acid detection: AI promotes continuous optimization of original nucleic acid detection
Nucleic acid testing has always been an indispensable procedure for diagnosis, and it is particularly important to accelerate the efficiency of nucleic acid testing. Many technology companies are constantly optimizing testing.
At the end of January, the domestic precision medical company based on third-generation sequencing technology Hope Group Biotechnology announced the completion of a new full-length coronavirus nucleic acid detection kit based on nanopore sequencing technology, and a metagenomic pathogen detection method based on nanopore sequencing technology.
Nanopore sequencing technology has the advantages of real-time, long read, short running time, and simple library construction. The metagenomic pathogen detection method can detect rapidly evolving pathogens and other unknown pathogens. Faster analysis and its close cooperation with Huawei Huawei cloud 5G and technical team is closely related to AI cloud services and technical capabilities to help hospitals and other places to get the results, complete the detection and analysis of pathogens, lack of those temporary or The medical point of the computing equipment has more outstanding value.
2. Medical imaging-assisted diagnosis: Expansion of the digital "forced" AI medical imaging speed
On February 12, the latest epidemic situation released by the Hubei Provincial Health Commission official website added specific figures for "clinically diagnosed cases" of new coronary pneumonia. From 0:00 to 22:00 on February 12, Hubei Province added 13332 new cases of clinical diagnosis of new coronary pneumonia.
It is conceivable that the intensive work intensity and pressure faced by the imaging doctors in major hospitals. During the epidemic, the major manufacturers are also AI AI aspects of assisted medical imaging to seek a breakthrough.
For example, Huawei Cloud has cooperated with Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Lanwang Technology to launch a new coronavirus pneumonia AI-assisted medical image quantitative analysis service. This service is based on computer vision and medical image analysis. The shortage of doctors who can accurately diagnose new coronary pneumonia images is alleviated. The workload of doctors will also be greatly reduced.
New coronary pneumonia patients have many lung lesions and rapid changes. They need to be reviewed multiple times in a short period of time. The image workload is very large, which is superimposed with the huge number of diagnosed multipliers, which makes the geometric pressure of CT images increase geometrically. , Will effectively reduce the review of doctors' work and improve the diagnosis efficiency. Ensuring accuracy on the basis of efficiency becomes particularly critical, which requires the AI on the platform operator protection force, such as Huawei cloud services on the above image to achieve quantified based on a single case study from Huawei Ascend (rising) Series AI chip The result is output in seconds, so that the overall efficiency of AI + doctor review can reach tens of times of the speed of pure manual quantitative evaluation.
3. Antiviral drug research and development: AI drug research and development press the accelerator key
The application of AI in drug research and development has been a hot topic in recent years. Novo Nordisk, a well-known diabetes manufacturer in the world, greatly improved the efficiency of new drug discovery by launching AI technology two years ago.
In the face of the urgent needs of the epidemic, the hot key was pressed the accelerator key in a "special task" way, which also showed the value of AI to more people.
Not long ago, the Huawei Cloud EI Medical Agent team, together with experts from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, formed a joint research team to conduct ultra-large-scale computer-assisted drug screening for new coronary pneumonia. Five antiviral drugs that may be effective for new coronary pneumonia were screened out, and relevant research institutions and pharmaceutical companies were opened to provide further drug development references.
The main value of AI intervention drug screening is to replace manual screening by computer simulation (modeling of targeted proteins, small molecule compounds, etc., and to simulate the mechanism of action from the molecular dynamics level) (requires a situation of non-stop testing and calculation) In order to greatly improve efficiency, for example, the screening algorithm launched by Huawei Cloud EI Medical Agent team and expert professors completed the work that took several months in the past within a few hours.
In addition to the above three levels of direct fight against viruses, AI has other applications in the front line. For example, distribution, medicine delivery, inspection, disinfection ... These tasks that had to be done by medical staff can now be handed over to medical robots.
The robot replaces the fully autonomous contact-free service provided by humans, which not only avoids cross infection of medical staff, but also reduces the distribution burden of staff.
AI comprehensive governance capabilities
Intelligent City Governance Moves to "Basis"
Looking away from the frontline of the epidemic, at the second-line level of prevention and control, AI has more diversified performance and is inextricably linked to urban governance.
Recently, Huawei Cloud and Besai Technology have provided free epidemiological intelligence analysis services to government agencies, enterprises, universities, banks and other customers during the epidemic prevention and control period to help customers quickly analyze the current epidemic situation and master relevant epidemic information.
These subjects use AI to assist in the macroscopic analysis and decision-making of the epidemic situation, which is itself a manifestation of responding to public health emergencies at various levels in urban governance.
Looking more specifically at the scenarios and cases, the nature of urban governance in this kind of anti-epidemic "second-tier" AI move is more obvious. If it is said that AI against viruses is only a "surgery" for a single epidemic, then the use of AI to respond to public health emergencies at the level of urban governance reveals a "radical cure" aspect. 1, to control the outbreak: massive population base spawned rapid investigation mechanism
On the basis of a huge population, the prevention and control of the epidemic will be more severe, and the huge population is precisely the product of urbanization.
On the other hand, at least when China's megacities continue to develop and lead the world, we need to establish a group prevention and control system that responds to more likely public health events.
Probing, communicating to individuals, etc. can now involve AI. In addition to the case of Qixia Branch of the Nanjing Public Security Bureau, there are more similar examples.
For example, Shanghai Anqiao International Bilingual Kindergarten's inspection work is difficult to complete all inspections in a short time. In addition, manual phones also face problems such as slow content synchronization, difficulty in ensuring the integrity of notification content, difficulty in unifying data, and summary.
With the support of the AI-supported Huawei Cloud Intelligent Voice Epidemic Return System, Ancho Kindergarten completed a standardized telephone communication with 2,500 parents in one day. The system can support more than 90,000 phone calls per hour.
In fact, similar technologies, many AI vendors are participating. For example, Baidu and iFLYTEK have similar intelligent call dialogue systems, and some platforms with strong community nature also have actions. For example, Suning has opened the E home community management platform based on AI. And other core technologies for community community management, information collection, health check-in, etc.
2. Maintain production: AI collaborative office supports "productivity" in front of emergencies
In urban governance, a complete epidemic prevention and control system should be accompanied by measures to reduce economic damage and maintain production in addition to solving the epidemic.
Macro policy is the main method, but from the micro level, collaborative office can not be ignored. At least, it can support urban production. Among them, the use of remote office software or intelligent work platform with intelligent capabilities is an important part.
Previously, the Huawei Cloud WeLink intelligent work platform announced that it will provide users with free video conferencing systems during the epidemic. Units with fewer than 1,000 users can open online for free, support 100-party real-time online meetings, and integrate health punching, video conferencing, instant messaging, and email , SMS, voice, video, network disk, mobile approval and other functions, its built-in AI work assistant Xiaowei contains a sentence to find people, find mail, book travel and other services.
There is only one result of all technical blessings, and that is to help the business development of the enterprise by improving work efficiency.
Of course, we believe that this kind of technology will also have self-evident value in promoting work efficiency after the epidemic fades.
3. Refine public health management: localized intelligent solutions take shape
Due to its extremely contagious nature, the new coronary pneumonia has forced many smart solutions to specific public health situations to upgrade.
For example, based on edge intelligence, Huawei Cloud has added an epidemic prevention and control solution under the framework of a smart campus—a mask intelligent recognition function, that is, using AI technology to detect the behavior of people who do not wear a mask, and track abnormal people in real time.
As a result, problems such as the inability to cover in the epidemic prevention and control park, the high exposure risk of the staff, and missing inspections were effectively resolved.
In addition, Huawei's cloud data visualization service DLV has launched a number of epidemic templates, which are ready to use, helping the government, health, park properties, transportation public security and other industries to quickly build a large visualization screen to achieve epidemic situation awareness, public opinion analysis, and accurate prevention and control.
As another example, the new Pneumococcal virus requires "no contact", and a large number of "non-contact" business solutions have emerged, and AI has also demonstrated its value.
Huawei and Wanglong Technology launched a contactless intelligent elevator solution. The elevator equipment is controlled in real time through the Internet of Things platform. Users can call the elevator with mobile phone app / WeChat applet / Bluetooth and automatically light the destination floor. Pressing the "elevator" also solves the potential exposure problem of waiting for the elevator for a long time.
This non-contact intelligent elevator solution, the more the high-risk scene value is more obvious, and also reflects the diversified development potential of cutting-edge technology. AI infrastructure property
Let the epidemic prevention and control work together
From the first-line anti-virus to the second-line virus prevention and control, and go deeper, in fact, the value of AI returns to its technical value essence: as the infrastructure of the intelligent era.
Many of the above-mentioned real-life scenarios and applications can be seen as individual AI landing projects of technology companies, which play value in the epidemic. In fact, the ecological development of AI has always been a collective effort. More participants share the basic capabilities, and in turn promote the improvement of basic capabilities.
During the outbreak, Huawei Cloud AI launched nearly 3 million free API call plans, including text recognition, graphics engine, speech semantics, content review, etc., to help companies fight against the outbreak.
In short, AI can help in various scenarios of anti-epidemic, and behind it is the accumulation of long-term development of AI. It is expected that after the epidemic, AI development will accelerate, more typical scenarios will have AI applications landing, and more star enterprises or platforms will emerge.
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