Researchers developing 'death calculator' that can predict when you will die with 78% accuracy

Updated on December 22, 2023 at 1:02 PM

A.I. is on the rise and researchers have now developed one that can do something completely different: It should be able to predict when we will die.

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Death is a fascinating topic. In addition to near-death experiences, which are said to be a 'different dimension of reality', AI has also been asked about what might happen after death. Now it is said to be able to estimate when a person will die.

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Goal: 'Predictability of human life'

In a short summary of their work, published in the journal Nature, the scientists behind the study Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives write about their aim and their approach:

Here we represent human life in a way that has structural similarities to language, and we use this similarity to adapt natural language processing techniques to study the evolution and predictability of human life based on detailed sequences of events.

The Life2vec chatbot used indicators such as 'profession, income and medical data' for its predictions, according to metro.co.uk. According to The Sun, it drew on precisely this data from six million Danes over a period of several years.

Not everyone can use Life2vec

Towards the end of the study, it emerged that Life2vec was able to predict with a high degree of accuracy (78%) when study participants would still be alive and when they would die.

However, if you are brave enough to want to use the chatbot yourself, we have to disappoint you: The tool is not freely accessible.

However, one thing is pretty certain: with a healthy lifestyle, which can also be trained, it is certainly more likely to reach a biblical age than with a hedonistic lifestyle.

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This article has been translated from Gentside DE.

Sources used:

Nature: Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives

metro.co.uk: Calculator predicts when you'll die - and it's scarily accurate

Sun: WOULD YOU TRY IT? AI doom calculator can predict when you'll DIE using 4 pieces of data - and it's eerily accurate