Advances in medicine have significantly increased life expectancy, especially in developed countries, and this, combined with disease prevention and healthier lifestyles, helps improve statistics. These same models could eventually predict the prevalence of deadly diseases and problems we might face on our way to the grave.
But so far no AI has gone as far as life2vec. Artificial Intelligence Model which can supposedly predict the outcome of people’s lives, including their approximate date of birth. when they die.
In a new article published in the magazine Nature Computational ScienceResearchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) explained how it works:
“We use the model to address a fundamental question: To what extent can we predict events in your future based on conditions and events in your past?” Sune Lehmann, professor at DTU and author of the paper, announced the study in a press release from the school.
life2vec uses inputs such as time and place of birth, education, health status, occupation and salary, and the results purport to predict everything from “early mortality” to “nuances of personality,” the study explains.
“What’s interesting is thinking about human life as a long sequence of events,” Lehmann said in a press release, “much like a sentence in a language is made up of a series of words.”
The researchers behind the paper note that the life2vec model raises ethical issues such as the protection of sensitive data, confidentiality and the role of bias in data. These issues need to be understood in more depth before the model can be used, for example, to estimate a person’s risk of contracting a disease or other preventable life events.
“The model opens up important positive and negative perspectives for discussion and policy decisions. Such technologies are already used today to predict life events and human behavior by technology companies, which, for example, track our behavior on social networks, profile us with extreme accuracy and use these profiles to predict our behavior and influence on us. This discussion should be part of a democratic dialogue, so that we can think about where technology is taking us and whether we want such a development,” says Sune Lehmann.
Source: Digital Trends
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