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By: MIRIAM KSOLL published on02/18/2022 - 01:54 PMIn the Argentine capital Buenos Aires, people can now find out via WhatsApp whether they are COVID-19 positive. All you have to do is cough into your smartphone - artificial intelligence (AI) does the rest.The cough recording is sent as a voice message via Boti, the city's official WhatsApp chatbot, to the AI system "IATos". If the AI recognises corona-typical cough, the user gets the advice to take a quick test.In the end, IATos does not replace a conventional test. But it can easily give you an initial orientation about the current infection status. And if non-infected people can be reliably filtered out, much fewer people would have to come to test centres - this would relieve them.AI trains with coughing soundsIATos was created from a collection of more than 140,000 cough samples. It is the largest cough database in the world," says a communication from the city. IATos is therefore able to classify voice, breathing and coughing sounds. It was developed by the Ministry of Innovation and Digital Transformation of the city of Buenos Aires.h


86 percent reliableA recent pilot test showed a predictive efficiency of 86 percent.