*ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE VERSUS DENGUE*

George Town : Penang will embracing  Artificial Intelligence [AI] technology to fight the  dengue menace after the state recorded more than-

 2,500 infections with 13 deaths over the past decade.

The state has tied up with an American high-tech firm called the Artificial Intelligence for Medical Epidemiology [AIME] Inc with the aim of-

Drastically reducing the number of  dengue infections and deaths through the utilisation of the latest electronic applications.

The Chief Minster told a press conference that game-changing surveillance system. which the state has appropriately named :

''Crush Aedes Totally [CAT]'' will offer advance warning to public health authorities on dengue outbreak epicentres.

''With an early warning system in place, the state can fog suspected areas earlier faster to check the outbreak of aedes mosquitoes and to eradicate the dengue carrier effectively.

''Mosquitoes are survivors, but we must use new age tech to outsmart them,'' said the Chief Minister.

CAT works in essence as a digitalised  tracking system using an AI computer which can learn by itself to compute big data analysis and to record the patterns of where dengue cases  are spreading before-

Making future predictions on which areas the mosquitoes will thrive in next.

The system uses the big data analysis, robotics, AI, cloud computing, e-commerce and the Internet.