Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to push the boundaries of imagination! A brand new model not only claims to predict key moments in your life, but goes so far as to determine the date of your death. Researchers say this AI can peer into the human soul with breathtaking precision. Although its first steps are timid, its revolutionary potential continues to dazzle us.
An AI similar to ChatGPT that predicts the future
life2vec artificial intelligence (AI) is able to anticipate events such as illness or the date of death of a person, based on data. It is the result of a collaboration between several universities (Denmark, Copenhagen and Northeastern). Researchers analyzed the personal data of 6 million people between 2008 and 2020. Its results are fruitfulaccurately targeting a person’s personality traits and time of death.
This technology IA is similar to the ChatGPT model. In fact, the scientists converted all the data into words in order to train a large linguistic model. According to Sune Lehmann, professor at the Technical University of Denmark, inarticle published on December 18, human life is a long sequence of events, such as a sentence is a sequence of words. The interest of this AI is not limited to predicting the date of death. It would allowidentify very interesting statistical trends on people’s way of life.
Ethical problems to overcome
This new AI raises ethical issues. This is the case for the protection of sensitive data and the privacy of individuals. She must therefore be able to solve these problems before predicting serious events in a person’s life. The researchers then underlined the importance of statistical biases. A better understanding of this model is necessary before using it.
This work remains very interesting from a conceptual point of view. But the practice is quite different. It is appropriate to launch a major debate on the scope of this technology, which is as powerful as it is frightening. And as Lehmann said so well, this discussion must be part of the democratic conversation, so that we can determine where this Life2vec AI will take us.
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