AI's ability to predict death may not be as scary as it sounds
1 year ago

AI's ability to predict death may not be as scary as it sounds

Live Mint  

When headlines recently said that artificial intelligence can be used to create a ‘death calculator’ that predicts the day you’ll die, it sounded like something from a terrifying science fiction story. The paper that spawned the fracas, in Nature Computational Science, did involve using AI to predict death, but it wasn’t very precise. It can’t foresee that you’ll get in a freak accident, or predict you’ll die in 10, 15 or 20 years, said Andrew Beam, a professor of biomedical informatics at Harvard Medical School. There’s a risk that AI could prompt humans to be misled by authority bias: “If you think someone is smarter than you or has access to information that you don’t have, there’s a real tendency to turn off critical thinking and believe anything that comes out— whether it’s a person or an AI," he said.

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Can AI predict when you will die? This AI app claims results are ‘pretty significant’
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Can AI predict when you will die? This AI app claims results are ‘pretty significant’

Live Mint  

The AI-powered longevity app Death Clock, which was released recently, has become very popular among customers. The app developer Brent Franson claims that the results are “pretty significant.” The app tops in the category of health and fitness apps. However, Franson believes that the new app will give an accurate measure, a customised death clock, the report said. The second …

When will you die? Danish researchers build AI algorithm that aims to predict life, and death
11 months, 2 weeks ago

When will you die? Danish researchers build AI algorithm that aims to predict life, and death

Hindustan Times  

Researchers in Denmark are using artificial intelligence and data from millions of people to predict the stages of an individual's life from beginning to end, with the goal of raising awareness of the technology's capabilities and risks. "From one perspective, lives are simply sequences of events: People are born, visit the paediatrician, start school, move to a new location, get …

New AI model Life2vec may predict human lifespan, researchers say
1 year, 2 months ago

New AI model Life2vec may predict human lifespan, researchers say

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence tool that uses sequences of life events "such as health history, education, job, and income" to predict everything from an individual's personality to their lifespan. Built using transformer models, which power large language models like ChatGPT, the tool called life2vec is trained on a data set pulled from the entire population of …

How Artificial Intelligence can predict, prevent sudden cardiac death?
1 year, 4 months ago

How Artificial Intelligence can predict, prevent sudden cardiac death?

India TV News  

The AI analysis successfully pinpointed individuals with a greater than 90 per cent risk of experiencing a sudden, life-threatening event. The AI analysis was able to identify people who had more than 90 per cent of risk of dying suddenly, and they represented more than one fourth of all cases of sudden cardiac death. " Using AI to analyse the …

Researchers have created a new AI programme can predict patient lifespan
7 years, 9 months ago

Researchers have created a new AI programme can predict patient lifespan

Firstpost  

Researchers have developed an artificial intelligence programme that can predict when a patient is likely to die, simply by looking at images of their organs with 69 percent accuracy. “Predicting the future of a patient is useful because it may enable doctors to tailor treatments to the individual,” said lead author Luke Oakden-Rayner, a radiologist at the University of Adelaide …

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