The latest AI technology is claimed can help to handle of natural disaster quickly

News24xx.com - Latest Artificial intelligence (AI) is claimed to be capable of help fix the handling of natural disasters. IBM Country Manager, Tan Wijaya explained that the application of AI can make the distribution of food and medicine assistance on target and fast.

"For example Tsunami in Aceh, the most damaged area was in the interior. But the distribution of food and aid supplies was more on the beach. Our AI made it possible to do an inventory where the logistics had to be distributed, namely to the areas that needed the most" said Wijaya when met at a press conference in Jakarta, Wednesday, August 7th 2018.

In addition to predicting natural disasters and aid distribution, according to Wijaya, artificial intelligence can also provide information on weather predictions and potential disasters due to changes or extreme weather. "In Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we apply AI to read weather more quickly. The characteristics of this city are easy to occur when floods happen" he said.

Wijaya also said that during a natural disaster, the most complicated thing is to find relatives in the midst of the natural disaster. Wijaya said that AI connected to the cloud could facilitate this search because of an integrated data base.

"When a disaster happens, the most problem for everyone is to find their family members. Which will hard to find, if you search manually. What we do is just enter the location into a computer. Then you can find that person via computer" said Wijaya.

Based on IBM's website, IBM has an initiative program to prepare for natural disasters. This initiative is called Call for Codes. Call For Codes invites developers to create AI-based applications to prepare for natural disasters. For example, developers can create applications that use weather forecast data and chain information systems to warn local pharmacies when a disaster is predicted to occur based on weather data.

 

 

 

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