Computing empowers medical services, disaster warning capabilities-Xinhua
CHANGSHA, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — When somebody with an emotional situation or psychological sickness struggles with the thought of seeing a therapist in particular person, there’s now another choice: talking to a man-made intelligence (AI) therapist via a WeChat mini program.
The AI therapist can reply questions on psychological well being, conduct psychological well being assessments and choose an individual’s emotional state by capturing facial expressions with the digicam on the cell phone. It was offered on the two-day 2024 World Computing Convention held this week in Changsha, the capital of central China’s Hunan Province.
“The AI therapist will reply accordingly with its prognosis and proposals, talking in an acceptable tone that ought to assist consolation the particular person,” mentioned Yu Min, government dean of the innovation analysis institute of Hunan Trasen Science & Know-how Corp., Ltd., developer of the AI medical system.
Folks also can attain out to an AI physician that may diagnose customers after they describe their signs. It will possibly additionally perform conventional Chinese language drugs tongue prognosis and supply recipes and train suggestions to realize improved stability and concord inside the physique.
“Conventional fashions can not meet the necessity to develop such methods in medical companies, which require a excessive degree of accuracy. Nevertheless, fast-developing computing energy has supplied us with robust help to develop this medical system in a extra correct approach,” Yu mentioned.
In line with Pan Yunhe, an academician on the Chinese language Academy of Engineering, new fashions are anticipated to assist us change into extra educated and work towards preventive therapies for illnesses within the coming years if knowledge gathered from bodily examinations, illness instances, households and areas is mixed.
With excessive climate occasions rising in frequency, computing energy additionally has an enormous position to play within the prevention and management of pure disasters.
Because of a catastrophe monitoring and early warning platform, six households in Dayingang Village, Hunan’s Changde Metropolis, had been capable of relocate earlier than a landslide occurred resulting from every week of rainfall in June.
The platform, developed by Hunan BDS Micro-chipset Information Know-how Co., Ltd., is ready to seize delicate modifications in mountains by deploying high-precision monitoring tools and sensors primarily based on the BeiDou Navigation Satellite tv for pc System, mentioned Lengthy Pengyu, the corporate’s deputy normal supervisor.
“The platform can analyze the monitoring knowledge to find out the mountain’s standing and predict pure disasters resembling mudslides and landslides greater than three hours prematurely of their incidence,” he mentioned.
The prevention of geological disasters resembling landslides is a vital activity in the course of the flood season in Hunan. Landslides develop rapidly in excessive climate, and early warnings can now be despatched through radio and textual content messages to assist residents relocate prematurely to keep away from deaths, accidents and monetary losses, Lengthy added.
Thus far, the monitoring and early warning platform has been utilized in additional than 10 provinces in China.
“With accelerating technological innovation and algorithm enchancment, we now have higher warning outcomes and accuracy ranges. As a developer, we’re additionally making efforts to cut back prices in order that the platform can be utilized over a wider vary and profit extra residents,” he mentioned.
The size of China’s computing business reached 2.6 trillion yuan (about 370 billion U.S. {dollars}) in 2022, in accordance with official statistics. ■
