World Health Organisation AI chatbot goes deaf when asked for the latest COVID-19 figures for Taiwan, Hong Kong The World Health Organisation’s Facebook Messenger chatbot refuses to break out the latest numbers of COVID-19 cornavirus cases and deaths for Taiwan and Hong Kong. The chatbot, built with the help of Sprinklr, a New York-based software company, was launched in April to combat misinformation during the pandemic. But there …
Yes - they are totally "owned" by China.
The WHO only has about 8000 employees worldwide. Mostly they collect data and statistics, and design the contents of those little pamphlets you pick up in hospitals. Sometimes they collect data and recommend on countrywide inoculation policies.
That America decided to withdraw from the world stage isn't the WHO's fault.
Macau isn't getting an answer either, nor PRC, nor Shanghai, nor California, nor Scotland.
I'm honestly not sure the point the article is trying to make, beside some cheap clickbait. Hong Kong is not an independent country, and Taiwan is not part of the WHO, for the same reason it's not recognized officially as a country by the US or the UK.
But the British seem to have a knack to act all surprised now about things they officially agreed to decades ago, so there's that.
...we've been going along with the Chinese Government for many years in the assumption that *at some point* they'll become reasonable. You'd think they'd notice the progress they made made when they stopped blindly following Russia and let the West lend a hand in the late 70s.
Eh... we've come to under-appreciate Democracy these days. Maybe it's only fair that we hand the world over to authoritarian governments.
The first time this happened.
Questions were raised at the time about his integrity based on his previous actions in Ethiopia
In his first year he made Robert Mugabe a good will ambassador even though Zimbabwe medical facilities had been ruined during Mugabes rule.
I recall thinking at the time that the job was potentially a top 5 most important job in the world and he was not up to it.
That's disingenuous. He's not an MD, but he is a doctor, he studied infectious diseases, spent years in a Health Ministry.
You know the head of the WHO isn't seeing patients him- or herself, right? So being an MD certainly doesn't hurt, but having his extensive experience in healthcare seems perfectly right too.
"Sprinklr"? Really? You couldn't be arsed to include that single letter that would prove you've got the brains of a six year old?
"But we can't patent a properly spelt common word!"
Then don't use a common word. Use something new & interesting like "CeeVee the virus myth destroyer" or something equally creative. Dropping a letter from a properly spelt word to try & be "hip" makes you look like the complete illiterate dingleberries you are.
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