After over a year of quarantine, lockdowns and social distancing, the vaccine instils hope on the horizon, albeit slow. In January, the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) projected that immunization programs for the majority of the world’s population.
Covid-19 has greatly accelerated the adoption of artificial intelligence in industries, says the Cloud & Data platform Sales Leader, IBM Technology Sales
Q&A with Anil Bhasker, Cloud & Data platform Sales Leader, IBM Technology Sales
June 01, 2021
Covid-19 has greatly accelerated the adoption of artificial intelligence in industries
The pandemic has accelerated the rollout of AI in enterprises across industry verticals. In a conversation with BusinessLine, Anil Bhasker, Cloud & Data platform Sales Leader, IBM Technology Sales, IBM India/South Asia said, India is uniquely positioned to succeed in the AI economy.
How has the pandemic impacted the adoption of AI in Indian enterprises?
IBM’s Global AI Adoption Index 2021 found that while AI adoption was flat last year, we are poised for a major uptick in AI investments as companies continue to find ways to emerge from the pandemic. Many organizations in India lean on NLP (natural language processing) technologies and AI automation to help lower costs and get trusted information into the hands of their customers, partners and employees as they look for new ways to engage with them a
Coimbatore: The district recorded 3,165 fresh Covid-19 cases on Saturday, taking the total number of cases to 1,34,912. Despite 2,377 people getting discharged on the day, again highest in a day, the number of active cases crossed the grim figure of 30,000 to touch 30,104.
The total number of people cured rose to 1,03,809, keeping the recovery rate at 76.9%.
Thirty-two people died due to the virus, which is the highest number of deaths declared in a single day, taking the toll to 999. Of the 32 people declared dead, four were in the 40s, five in the 50s and nine in the 60s.
As per the media bulletin, there are 401 ordinary beds, 22 free oxygen beds and one ICU bed. However, finding a bed for even non-oxygen requiring patients turned out to be an uphill task on Saturday. Some patients waited at Coimbatore Medical College Hospital for seven hours for a bed, only to be refused. With more beds being added in Covid care centres, there are 539 vacant beds.