One of the first companies that come to mind when it comes to artificial intelligence must be Boston Dynamics. From time to time, they show how close artificial intelligence age is to us with robot videos they publish.

Among these videos they have published, I have two favorites. One is the video released under the name of "UpTown Spot", featuring a robot dancing to the playing rhythm. The other is the video published under the name of "What’s new, Atlas".

I suggest you watch carefully the video in which the robot named Atlas flips over. Because at the end of the video, you will see that the robot did not suddenly start to flip backwards, but learned it by doing it better and by gaining experience on its own after unsuccessful attempts.

The biggest innovation that artificial intelligence will add to our lives will be its ability to learn on its own. Considering this feature, it can be very exciting to imagine the benefit that artificial intelligence can contribute to humanity.

Artificial Intelligence Support in Combating Pandemic

What would it be like if these robots were working in the triage parts of the hospitals during the pandemic process today?

The triage sections of the hospitals are the sections located at the emergency entrances and determining how urgent the incoming patient's condition is and directing the patient to green, yellow and red codes.

These sections stand out as perhaps one of the most risky parts of the pandemic process. Because while the patient himself/herself does not even know whether he/she is carrying a virus or not, the healthcare professionals here direct the patient to the green, yellow and red codes just mentioned according to the risk he/she carries. This situation can push healthcare workers working in triage to a disadvantage against the disease.

However, if the robots with artificial intelligence were working here and if they had made the directions, perhaps much earlier than a human being, they would be able to identify risks and provide the necessary guidance for intervention. In this way, healthcare professionals will be able to be more advantageous against the virus.

The operation of an artificial intelligence robot in the triage area can provide great advantages not only in the time of the coronovirus pandemic we live in, but also in the normal time.

I have mentioned before that the biggest innovations of artificial intelligence robots are that they can learn by themselves. These robots, which will develop day by day as the first point of diagnosis, will be able to make doctors' work easier by making more accurate and faster determinations every day.

Although such good robots are not used today, we know that artificial intelligence programs are used.

eCart System

Chicago University Hospital in America has been using artificial intelligence systems since 2015. With the current version of this system called “eCart”, it is possible to predict within 8 hours which patients will have a heart attack, which patients should be transferred to intensive care, or which ones are at risk of death.

Achieving its purpose by providing patients with risk scores through the patient's electronic medical records, this system gives us a prediction.

Today, the "eCart" system will work with other institutions of the United States against the Covid-19 virus and begin to predict which patient needs intubation and which patient should be given medication.

In the fight against the Covid-19 virus, machines and people work together to find solutions to problems. Humanity is once again confronted with the unifying power of suffering ...

It is obvious that if the Covid-19 virus did not exist, the coordination of the studies would be more disconnected and the results of the studies could only occur in a longer time. With the optimistic eye, we can consider that in the near future the artificial intelligence could start to play a more active role in health system.