A newly developed AI tool, Life2vec, claims to predict your death with 78% accuracy by analysing comprehensive life data, raising both intrigue and ethical concerns.
A newly developed AI tool, Life2vec, claims to predict your death with 78% accuracy by analysing comprehensive life data, raising both intrigue and ethical concerns.
Here's a story... the last heart attack, in January, was in the middle of a snow and ice storm. The hospital needed to get me to another hospital for the stent because they couldn't do it, but because of the ice, the ambulance couldn't get there.
So I wake up the next morning and I'm fiddling on my phone, modding lemmy, such as you do.
Nurse comes in and he goes "Were you asleep about an hour ago?"
"Yeah, why?"
"Your heart stopped for 8 seconds."
". . . Um... thank you? I... don't know what I'm supposed to do with that information."
So I have an implant now, it calls out through my phone if my heart stops again.
The Life2vec model was trained exclusively on Danish data, which means its accuracy may not translate well to individuals from other countries. As Professor Sune Lehmann Jørgensen from the Technical University of Denmark, who led the research, pointed out, the model's predictions might not be as precise for non-Danish populations.