Many of us are curious about how we will die. It's not funny, though. For this, some people resort to astrology for answers, but many times their predictions are not correct. Now scientists have developed a new computer tool that uses people's personal information to predict when that person might die. In Denmark, scientists are using a lot of information from computers and different people to predict what might happen in someone's life. They are trying to show how amazing technology can be, but they are also warning people about its dangers if this project succeeds.
Professor Sune Lehmann of the Technical University of Denmark explains that their project can make all kinds of assumptions about people's lives if they have enough information. It can predict things like someone has health problems like obesity or cancer, or even how successful they will be financially. The system also works a bit like ChatGPT, but instead of chatting, it takes into account when people were born, what school they attended.
Researchers are using similar technology so that computers can tell what happens in people's lives. This system takes a person's life as a story with various events, such as being born, going to school, changing homes, and getting married. However, some people think it is a "death calculator", which tricks fake websites into sharing their personal information. But the researchers confirmed that their project is personal and that its information is not available to anyone else. photo source collected.
The life2vec project looks at data on about 6 million Danish residents. It's just looking at what they've done in their lives and trying to guess what might happen next. But it's 78 percent successful in predicting whether someone might die soon. Researchers say that only 35 to 65-year-olds are interested in knowing about their deaths.